"Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought."

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I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.

— Stephen Jay Gould