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A busy life is a wasted life.

Francis Crick

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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Human Kind Man Reproduction Run
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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Bad Evidence Foundation Goodness Legal Logic
When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.
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Believe Difficult Discover Hard Science Start 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
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
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 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.
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Drama Easy Enlightenment Experience Feeling Place
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
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
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
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
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
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
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
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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Argument Experiment Impression Negative Possible

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