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“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.” quote by Bill Gaede — Download Open image

““A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.””

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Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

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For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

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Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

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Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.

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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

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A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

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It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

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A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

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Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

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If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a…

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