Thought

Relaxing at the moment, listening to Charles Mingus' Dynasty [amaz] and was reminded of a quote that is attributed to him: "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." In many ways, Darwin made the complicated awesomely simple.

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