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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.

Francis Crick

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Dangerous Death Fight Himself Ideas Thinking
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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
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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Division Group Science
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
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
God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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God One Liner Science
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
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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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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Biology Chemistry Explanation Fact Modern Movement
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.
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Believe Difficult Discover Hard Science Start Yourself
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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Biology Born Possible Reproduction Science
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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