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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

Francis Crick

One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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Existence Science 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
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
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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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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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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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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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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

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