When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.
"Man Evolving". Interview with Richard D. Heffner on The Open Mind, May 11, 1985.
