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The price of a metaphor is eternal vigilance.<br> _–Alexander Rosenbluth and Norbert Wiener_
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[I]t is a rule of evolution that characters at first merely an asset will, if they are retained long enough, finally become, through correlative evolutionary changes, a necessity... _–Hermann Muller Genetic aspects of sex. Am. Nat. 66: 118-138 (1932)._
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.<br> _–Wernher von Braun_
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I see the question of biological organization taking two prominent directions today. The first is the evolution of (proteinaceous) cellular organization, which includes sub-questions such as the evolution of the translation apparatus and the genetic code, and the origin and nature of the hierarchies of control that fine-tune and precisely interrelate the panoply of cellular processes that constitute cells. It also includes the question of the number of different basic cell types that exist on earth today: did all modern cells come from a single ancestral cellular organization?

The second major direction involves the nature of the global ecosystem. . . . Bacteria are the major organisms on this planet—in numbers, in total mass, in importance to the global balances. Thus, it is microbial ecology that . . . is most in need of development, both in terms of facts needed to understand it, and in terms of the framework in which to interpret them. _–Carl Woese, 2005_
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The genes are the master programmers, and they are programming for their lives. _–Richard Dawkins, 1976_
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