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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.

Francis Crick

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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Avoid Serious Temptation Thinking Time
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
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Agreement Comparison Measurement Production
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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Action Biology Problem
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Chance Novel True
God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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God One Liner Science
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
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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Education Learning People Research Work
It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.
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Biology Born Possible Reproduction Science
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Enemy Knowledge One Liner
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
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
It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid – usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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Biology Information Material Myself Science
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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Average Difficult Paper Reading Science Understand
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.
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Biology Experience Experiment Intellectual Mathematics Negative Reading Strong
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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Honesty Knowledge Life Man Miracle Satisfaction State

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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