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Editorial
. 2020 Jun 17;21(1):147.
doi: 10.1186/s13059-020-02057-5.

The two languages of science

Itai Yanai  1 , Martin Lercher  2
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Editorial

The two languages of science

Itai Yanai et al. Genome Biol. .
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The authors have no competing interests.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
The Heider-Simmel animation. An animated movie involving two triangles and a circle leads us to tell a story filled with motivations and purpose. Redrawn from [19]
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
The two languages of sciences. Night science ideas—which may be hazy and incompletely formed—are initially expressed with anthropomorphisms and other metaphors, but can be translated eventually into the precise language of day science
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