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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

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
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Difficult Live World
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
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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Average Difficult Paper Reading Science Understand
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
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
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
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
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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Biology Code Direction Evidence Science
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.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
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
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Religion Reveal Wrong
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
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

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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