Biology Quote by Francis Crick

“While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.”

Francis Crick

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

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