Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
FRANCIS CRICKAlmost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
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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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If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
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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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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