Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

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It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

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