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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.

Francis Crick

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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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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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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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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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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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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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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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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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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