“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing the snowflake, who seeing simple lipid molecules cast adrift in water forming themselves into cell-like hollow lipid vesicles, who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning order for free in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables, can fail to entertain a central thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely, surely have to understand the commingling of self-organization and selection. We will have to see that we are the natural expressions of a deeper order. Ultimately, we will discover in our creation myth that we are expected after all.”
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
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“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
― Life of Galileo
― Life of Galileo
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