It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble. (John Maynard Smith)

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

John Maynard Smith

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