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Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

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Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not…
I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

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