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People I Know Who Succeed Don't Mind Working. Those Who Are Competent Seem To Like Doing Things Well -- Not Stopping Because They Haven't Accomplished What They Wanted To On The First Go-round. They're Willing To Do It Twenty Times, If Necessary. There's An Illusion That The Good People Can Easily Do Something, And It's Not Necessarily True. They're Just Determined To Do It Right. I Was Impressed By Hearing One Of The Women At Radcliffe Talk About Writing A Poem, How Many Revisions A Single Poem Sometimes Has To Go Through -- Fifty Or Sixty Revisions To Come Out With A Poem Sixteen Lines Long.

Fish From All Over The World, From Deep In The Sea, Wind Up In Countries From Germany To Japan. That Is Just Crazy.

There Are A Lot Of Smart Creatures Out There. Dolphins, Elephants, And Whales Are Smart. And There Are Some Really Smart Birds. I Know Some Really Intelligent Fish. But They Cannot Know What Humans Know And Are Incapable Of Inflicting As Much Damage.

Our Job Is To Keep What Is Working Intact And Not Destroy What We Have Got.

Why Does Evolution Matter? There Is So Much About The Evolution Of Life, The Development Of Life On Earth That Should Rivet The Attention Of Everyone To Understand Where We've Come From And Where We Might Be Going. We Need To Understand The World Around Us If We Are To Succeed As A Species On The Planet.