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"Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material."
"But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked."
"In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred."
"It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection."
"It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on."
"The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion."
"Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken."
"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated."
"The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time."
"This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe."
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