A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
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Francis Collins
These are some quotes by American author Francis Collins Scientist, who was born on April 14, 1950.
Quotes by Francis Collins
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.
Francis Collins
If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.
