If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
FRANCIS CRICK
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
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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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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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It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
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It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.
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Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don’t know where you’re going. You’re just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.
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A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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