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Science advances but slowly, with halting steps. But does not therein lie her eternal fascination? And would we not soon tire of her if she were to reveal her ultimate truths too easily?

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Science is eternal in its out-gushing stream, bounded by neither time nor space, immeasurable in its activity, endless in its scope, its final goal ever unreached.

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One can see that the colors of the flowers have been developed as an adaptation to the color sense of their visitors. It is evident that they are not designed for the human eye. But this should not prevent us from delighting in their beauty.

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No competent scientist ought to believe these things on first hearing.

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Karl von Frisch

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Born: November 20, 1886
Died: June 12, 1982 (aged 95)
Bio: Karl Ritter von Frisch, ForMemRS was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.
Known for:
  1. The dance language and orientation of bees (1967)
  2. Aus dem Leben der Bienen (1927)
  3. Ten little housemates (1960)

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