It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
FRANCIS CRICKA man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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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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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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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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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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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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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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.
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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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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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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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