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Monday, 18 May 2015

Science is hard

In a public lecture in Prague today, Martin Rees made the oft-repeated statement that biology is far more complicated than astronomy. A frog is much more complex than a star or a galaxy.

If that's so, I'd like to hire a biologist and see how they get on. :D
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