If there is any lesson I have learned in my years of following science, it is that nothing is as it seems. Instead, things are as they seem plus the details you are just beginning to notice. New truths rarely overturn old ones, they simply add nuanced brushstrokes to the portrait.

The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life, Introduction (p. xiii), Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1995