The ones who I train to become scientists go at it like the warriors they should be, overturning existing knowledge and reigning paradigms, each discovery a murder of their scientific ancestors. And if I have trained them well, I must derive whatever satisfaction I can from the inevitability of becoming their Oedipal target someday.

— Robert Sapolsky The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (1997)

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