The Making of the Fittest Quotes

“California State University Professor Mike Orkin points out that if a person drives ten miles to buy a ticket, he or she is about sixteen times more likely to get killed in a car crash on the way than to win the jackpot. Wait a minute, you say; that may be for one ticket, but they’re buying a lot of tickets—surely, that improves the odds. It does, but Orkin notes that a person who buys fifty tickets a week will win the jackpot on average about once every 30,000 years.”
― Sean B. Carroll, The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

“Darwin’s great advantage over Paley and other thinkers of his generation was his grasp of the immensity of time. His”
― Sean B. Carroll, The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution