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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.

Francis Crick

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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Expression Motivational Myself Strong Work
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Chance Novel True
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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Biology Information Material Myself Science
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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Body Death Education People Soul Time
A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Accomplishment Man Right Time
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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Escape Eyes Notice Ourselves Possible Science
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Professional Technology Yourself
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
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Action Biology Problem
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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Criticism Friendship Goodness Measurement Science Value
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
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Detail Evidence Ideas Ourselves Science Type
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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Bad Evidence Foundation Goodness Legal Logic
My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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Function Prejudice Science Study Understand Yourself
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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Oneself Simplicity Thinking
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
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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Human Kind Man Reproduction Run

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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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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