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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.

Francis Crick

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
FRANCIS CRICK

Human Kind Man Reproduction Run
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
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
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Religion Reveal Wrong
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Children Privacy Religion Teaching Young
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
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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Life Science Understand
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
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Chance Novel True
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Believe Earth Help Need. Mental Old
We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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Experiment Myself Result Science Team Work
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
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Honesty Knowledge Life Man Miracle Satisfaction State
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
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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Believe Myself Structure
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Professional Technology Yourself

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