David Zipser, as quoted by Victor K. McElheny, Victor McElheny (5 February 2004), Watson And DNA: Making A Scientific Revolution, page: 106, publisher: Basic Books, ISBN: 978-0-7382-0866-4
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Molecular biology had a smal number of facts and a very, very strong paradigm, so you didn't have to know any facts. Unlike botany, which had nothing but facts and no paradigm. And since I have a bad memory for facts and a very good understanding of paradigms, it was ideal for me. I found it very simple.

— David on Paradigm

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Molecular biology had a smal number of facts and a very, very strong paradigm, so you didn't have to know any facts. Unlike botany, which had nothing but facts and no paradigm. And since I have a bad memory for facts and a very good understanding of paradigms, it was ideal for me. I found it very simple." in the context of "David Zipser, as quoted by Victor K. McElheny, Victor McElheny (5 February 2004), Watson And DNA: Making A Scientific Revolution, page: 106, publisher: Basic Books, ISBN: 978-0-7382-0866-4" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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David

About David

King David (d. ca. 961 BC) was according to the Hebrew Bible, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel.