One of the most insidious and ...

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
 Erwin Chargaff

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Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
 T. Harv Eker
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.
 Erwin Chargaff
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
 Erwin Chargaff
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic acids examined thus far the molar ratios of total purines to total pyrimidines, and also of adenine to thymine and of guanine to cytosine, were not far from 1.
 Erwin Chargaff