Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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Charles Darwin completed 200 years last week. As a competent Boring Scientist I should congratulate him for something.
I decided to resume his theory in one Portuguese old saying that “some people are born with their bottoms facing the moon”. It describes those gifted folks that somehow seem to get everything with ease.

Of course, there is a much larger debate on existentialist significance of his work, or else few would remember his second centennial. But that is the greatest paradigm of science, which is much more productive in logics than in answering the questions we want to be answered.

I leave you my favorite illustration:

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