It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
FRANCIS CRICKExact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don’t know where you’re going. You’re just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.
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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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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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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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It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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