An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
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No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
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