Chance is the only source of true novelty.
FRANCIS CRICKThere is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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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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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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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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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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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
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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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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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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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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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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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