but his assistant, Tycho Brahe,
who merely organized Kepler’s catalog of systematic astronomical observations.
document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 1.2It was not Johannes Kepler who discovered the laws of
planetary motion,
but his assistant, Tycho Brahe,
who merely organized Kepler’s catalog of systematic astronomical
observations.
“The best of science doesn’t consist of mathematical models
and experiments,
as textbooks make it seem.
Those come later.
It springs fresh from a more primitive mode of thought,
when the hunter’s mind weaves ideas from old facts and fresh
metaphors,
and the scrambled crazy images of things recently seen.
To move forward is to concoct new patterns of thought,
which in turn dictate the design of models and
experiments.”
- Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life, 1992
“The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers,
nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems,
but a quaternary code with four symbols.
The machine code of the genes is uncannily
computer-like.”
- Richard Dawkins
“Human DNA is like a computer program but far,
far more advanced than any software ever created.”
- Bill Gates
I’ve been doing bioinformatics for about 10 years now.
I used to joke with a friend of mine that most of our work was
converting between file formats.
We don’t joke about that anymore.
- Real-world Q&A from a bioinformatics expert
Experimental design is critical for both
experimental designers and data scientists,
especially for those who hope to analyze their results with
computational methods,
so remember:
Garbage in garbage out!!!