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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.

Francis Crick

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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Bad Evidence Foundation Goodness Legal Logic
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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Biology Design Evolution Mindset Science See
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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Believe Difficult Discover Hard Science Start Yourself
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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Existence Science Yourself
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Dangerous Death Fight Himself Ideas Thinking
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Believe Earth Help Need. Mental Old
Almost 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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Life Science Understand
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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Clever Evolution Yourself
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the – class as having one too few.
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Oneself Simplicity Thinking
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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Expression Motivational Myself Strong Work
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Professional Technology Yourself
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
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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Explanation Fact Theory Wrong

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