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Physicists and mathematicians want to discover regularities. People say, what use is disorder. But people have to know about disorder if they are going to deal with it.

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“why did nature do things in a certain way, and not in another one?” Why 20 amino acids, and not 15, or 55? Why do nucleic acids contain ribose instead of glucose? Must mammalian hemoglobin be constituted by four chains, why not six or twelve? Why didn’t nature make much simpler cells?

To be unknowing requires such systems to be in constant dialogue with the rest of the world, and to be prepared, as the best science has always been, to revise and rewrite themselves based on their errors.

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