You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
FRANCIS CRICKWe have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry – which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks – that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
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A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.
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We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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