A busy life is a wasted life.
FRANCIS CRICKThere 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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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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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The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
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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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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.
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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.
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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