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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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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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A busy life is a wasted life.
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One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the – class as having one too few.
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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.
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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid – usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

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