Maurice Caullery Quotes

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The double danger of research into this type of phenomenon lies, on the one hand, in bringing... preconceived ideas of too subjective a nature, bordering on an illusory anthropomorphism, and on the other hand, trying to reduce complex facts to simple elementary reactions.

Maurice Caullery

The biologist who studies heredity is very much like a mathematician who is studying a very complex function with the aid of partial differential equations and who tries to analyze the properties and the function about a point without being able as in the case of an elementary function to study it in itself, directly in all its respects.

Maurice Caullery