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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Francis Crick

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
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
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
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
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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Existence Science 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
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
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
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Brain Man Ourselves Science Study Universe
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
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Difficult Live World
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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Age Balance Earth Fundamental Impossible Intellectual Knowledge Record True
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Enemy Knowledge One Liner
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Religion Reveal Wrong
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
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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Clever Evolution Yourself

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