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By Asking A Novel Question That You Don't Know The Answer To, You Discover Whether You Can Formulate A Way Of Finding The Answer, And You Stretch Your Own Mind, And Very Often You Learn Something New.

Everyone Wants A Hand In The Outcome, A Piece Of The Knowledge.

I Am Afraid That Those Comments Go Back To The Late 80's. At That Time I Was A Skeptic - The Argument Based On Koch's Postulates To Try To Distinguish Between Cause And Association. Today I Would Regard The Success Of The Many Antiviral Agents Which Lower The Virus Titers (to Be Expected) And Also Resolve The Failure Of The Immune System (only Expected If The Virus Is The Cause Of The Failure) As A Reasonable Proof Of The Causation Argument .

I Have The Same Sense Of The Power And Virtue Of Knowledge That Some People Get From A Religious Background.

Biology Will Tell You A Lot Of Things, But There Are Many That It Can Not Explain And You Need To Look At Physics Instead.