“The job of science will never be done, it will just sink deeper and deeper into never-ending complexity.”

—  Isaac Asimov

"The Secrets of the Universe" (1989) (essay reprinted in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 168)
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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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