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The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music. – Lewis Thomas

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I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known. – Lewis Thomas

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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of ones own genes in the generations to follow. – Lewis Thomas

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If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society. – Lewis Thomas

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So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching. – Phillip E. Johnson

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I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. – Paul Nurse

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Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real. – Phillip E. Johnson

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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974

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