In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there's no way to demonstrate that it's false.
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the pr… - Richard Lewontin
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the pr…
- Richard Lewontin
I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists… - Richard Lewontin
I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists…
In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually. - Richard Lewontin
In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.
An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it mi… - Richard Lewontin
An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it mi…
To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen. - Richard Lewontin
To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.
An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases… - Richard Lewontin
An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases…
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology… - Richard Lewontin
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology…
If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that… - Richard Lewontin
If we're going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that…
With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so … - Richard Lewontin
With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so …
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