Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that. (Jeremiah P. Ostriker)

Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

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