Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
FRANCIS CRICKOne 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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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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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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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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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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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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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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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