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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

Francis Crick

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
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Religion Reveal Wrong
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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Existence Science Yourself
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
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
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Difficult Live World
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
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Enemy Knowledge One Liner
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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Education Learning People Research Work
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
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Determination Listen Sound Structure Try
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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Biology Experience Experiment Intellectual Mathematics Negative Reading Strong
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
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
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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Brain Complication Detail Essential Place See Understand Universe
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Chance Novel True
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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Explanation Fact Theory Wrong

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