The secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It’s what he asks. - Stephen Baxter

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Buffon’s work created a great furore, of course. The theologians at the Sorbonne condemned him, and Buffon dutifully retracted. But he wasn’t sincere: ‘It is better to be humble than hanged.’

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But you are a scientist, Michael Poole; and the skill of a scientist is in asking the right question.

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Information—its gathering, interpretation and storage—is the ultimate goal of all intelligent life.

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