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The job of theorists, especially in biology, is to suggest new experiments. A good theory makes not only predictions, but surprising predictions that then turn out to be true. (If its predictions appear obvious to experimentalists, why would they need a theory?)

— Francis Crick What Mad Pursuit (1988)

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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

Of Molecules and Men (1966)

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

The visual information provided by our eyes can be ambiguous.

The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

You are easily deceived by your visual system.

The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

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