Alex Buckley
@AlexBuckleyBio
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Worker. Abstract Theoretical Biologist. I solve problems that nobody else can. Support me: https://t.co/kDpkr2Fbf3
Joined November 2015
“[H]e was equally adept at attracting disciples and repelling colleagues.”
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L, lysosome; G, grana; Th, thylakoid; RER, rough endoplasmic reticulum; SER, smooth endoplasmic reticulum; NA, nerve axon; Sy, synapse; SyVe, synaptic vesicles; Ex, exocytosis; Enc, endocytosis.”
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GB, Golgi body; CW, cell wall; P, plastid; SG, starch grain; PL, plasmalemma; T, tonoplast; V, vacuole. (Micrographs: J. M. Bain.) (c) Types of membranes which can occur in animal cells and (d) in plant cells. Each line represents a membrane. Nu, nucleolus; Ve, vesicle;
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“Fig. 1.1. (a) Membranes in animal (chicken liver) cells and (b) in plant (mung bean stem) cells, as shown by the electron microscope. Each shows part of three adjoining cells. M, mitochondria; N, nucleus; NM, nuclear membrane; CM, cytoplasmic membrane; ER, endoplasmic reticulum;
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>sufficiently clear interpretation
@Benthamsbulldog generally, my attitude toward obscurantist authors is to defer judgment on the work until a sufficiently clear interpretation is available, as id rather spend time reading work with a higher expected insight to required effort ratio
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“[T]he starting point of research is not in sensory perceptions alone and even science cannot do without a certain dose of metaphysics.”
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“That provides a perfect framework for any esoteric mix for those too lazy to think more deeply.”
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Is scholarship invalid if the scholar didn’t attend undergraduate school?
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“As spiritual beings, we are like ‘island universes’, isolated from other spiritual beings; we can make contact with one another only through our senses – ‘soul speaks through flesh to soul’ – and sensory apparatus is necessarily physical. Hence the mind’s need for a body.”
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“But as always in science, any increase in knowledge leads to new gaps in our understand understanding.”
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