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 CRICKWhen 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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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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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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