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A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming the country side ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men. -- Peter William Atkins (British theoretical chemist, 1940-....) in "The Creation" (1983), 3
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Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public. -- Ernst Wilhem von Bröcke (German physiologist, 1819-1892)
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June 8 July 28 Special Category: Francis Crick From: Philip Clarke <clar0318#NoSpam.flinders.edu.au> Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs. -- Francis Crick [British molecular biologist, 1916- ]
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From: edftz#NoSpam.aol.com (Ed Fitzgerald) EVOLUTION Februari 9 May 31 Special Category: Jacques Monod [A] curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. -- Jacques Monod (1910-1979) _On the Molecular Theory of Evolution_ (1974) (French Biochemist, Nobel Prize Medicine 1965) June 8 July 28 Special Category: Francis Crick Orgel's Second Rule: Evolution is cleverer than you are. -- Francis Crick (British molecular biologist, 1916- ) quoted by Daniel C. Dennett in _Elbow Room_ (1984) June 17 Special Category: Franą„ois Jacob Evolution is a tinkerer. -- Francois Jacob (French biochemist 1920- )"Evolution and Tinkering" (1977) From: kriman#NoSpam.acsu.buffalo.edu (Alfred M. Kriman) December 4 June 18 A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. -- Samuel Butler _Life and Habit_ (1877)
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November 5 December 1 Special Category: John B. S. Haldane @A: Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (British geneticist and writer, 1892-1964) @Q: He seems to have an inordinate fondness for beetles. @%: When asked late in his life whether his studies had taught him anything about God that he might care to share. @%: JBS Haldane was an atheist. @%: Beetles comprise about a quarter of all known species. @Poster: Dan Case (V140PXGT#NoSpam.ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu), who has had correspondence published in _The New Republic_, and others.
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From: gt4495c#NoSpam.prism.gatech.edu (Giannhs) Physics-envy is the curse of biology. -- Joel Cohen
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Xdat326:Blind watchmaker [Natural Selection] has not vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to be play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the *blind* watchmaker. - Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-)in The Blind Watchmaker (1986)
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Xdat326:ways of being alive and dead However many ways there may be of being alife, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead. - Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-)in The Blind Watchmaker (1986)
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Xdat326:The essence of life The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. - Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-)in The Blind Watchmaker (1986)
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Xdat326:Survival machines They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence ... they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. - Richard Dawkins (English biologist,1941-)in The Selfish Gene (1976)
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From: neve#NoSpam.up.univ-mrs.fr (Gabriel NEVE) "The death of the butterfly is the one drawback to an entomological career" - Margaret E. Fountaine (1892)
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From: Ian Ellis <ian#NoSpam.iglou.com>
"The species of whale known as the black right whale has four kilos
of brains and 1,000 kilos of
testicles. If it thinks at all, we know what it is thinking about."
Jon Lien, "Whale Professor" at St. John's University, Newfoundland,
speaking to the Norwegian Telegram
Agency (spring 1995).
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September 12 Januari 29 Mencken, H. L. (1880 - 1956) It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. Notebooks, "Minority Report".
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June 28 "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof." -- Ashley Montague
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From: eclayton#NoSpam.trincoll.edu (Edward Clayton)
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".
-Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed
Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
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From: eclayton#NoSpam.trincoll.edu (Edward Clayton)
"If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung
cancer, it seems to be a minor one."
-Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in
the New York Times on April 14, 1954.
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From: eclayton#NoSpam.trincoll.edu (Edward Clayton)
"For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect."
-Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in
"Newsweek", Nov.18th 1963.
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November 5 December 1 Februari 28 August 19 Special Category: John B. S. Haldane Special Category: Linus Pauling Every species of plant and animal is determined by a pool of germ plasm that has been most carefully selected over a period of hundreds of millions of years. We can understand now why it is that mutations in these carefully selected organisms almost invariably are detrimental. The situation can be suggested by a statement by Dr. J.B.S. Haldane: "My clock is not keeping perfect time. It is conceivable that it will run better if I shoot a bullet through it; but it is much more probable that it will stop altogether." Professor George Beadle, in this connection, has asked: "What is the chance that a typographical error would improve Hamlet?" - Linus Pauling (in "No more War!")
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From: scotth9999#NoSpam.aol.com (ScottH9999)
Special Category: Louis Pasteur
December 27
September 28
"[Louis Pasteur's]... theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction.
"How do you think that these germs in the air can be numerous enough
to develop into all these organic infusions? If that were true, they would
be numerous enough to form a thick fog, as dense as iron."
--Pierre Pochet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, "The Universe:
The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Small" (1872); quoted in "The
Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation",
ed. by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, (NY: Pantheon Books, 1984),
p. 30.
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From: <xanthus#NoSpam.qni.com> Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones. -- Walters, Mark Jerome The Harper Book of Quotations. Third Edition
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Special Category: Norbert Wiener November 26 March 18 From: eugenio#NoSpam.ci.uminho.pt (Eugenio Campos Ferreira) "The best model of a cat is another cat or, better, the cat itself" - N.WIENER From: Eric DeLeon <ericdeleon7269#NoSpam.gmail.com> The quote listed can actually be credit to Arturo Rosenblueth, who, at one time or another actually worked with Norbert Wiener, and is more accurate as follows: "The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat." -- Arturo Rosenblueth (Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns (October 2, 1900 September 20, 1970) was a Mexican researcher, physician and physiologist, who is known as one of the pioneers of cybernetics.
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From: sjb8502#NoSpam.ucs.usl.edu (Bienvenu Jay ) "People are DNA's way of making more DNA." - Edward O. Wilson, 1975
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From: milligan#NoSpam.smartlink.net (Michael M Milligan) Dr. Francis Gunther, known to his peers as the father of pesticide residue chemistry, once said regarding humankind's ever increasing ability to detect infinitestimal quantities of pesticides in food and the paranoia that attends it in the minds of some: "Yesterday we looked for little bits of a few things in some things; today we look for less of more things in anything; tomorrow we will look for nothing in everything."
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