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• The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain.
  What it {can} do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them....
• The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat.
  I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say....
• How many Indiana University "notes" users -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Have you ever wondered why it's so dark in Bloomington?...
• The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components.
  Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons quarks....
• This unusual specimen is not so much a classic particle as a connector--a kind of string attaching two particles.
  As distance increases the connective power becomes attenuated, but if it is cut the power vanishe...
• The popular stereotype of the researcher is that of a skeptic and a pessimist.
  Nothing could be further from the truth! Scientists must be optimists at heart, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say "It cannot be done....
• Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me.
  We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts....
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...
• Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk.
  There -are- no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals....