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
FRANCIS CRICK
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Francis Crick54 quotes“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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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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick A busy life is a wasted life.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick Chance is the only source of true novelty.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis 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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