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John Maynard Smith Quotes: It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.
         

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.


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