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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

Francis Crick

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
Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.
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Argument Experiment Impression Negative Possible
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
It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid – usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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Biology Information Material Myself Science
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Religion Reveal Wrong
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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Drama Easy Enlightenment Experience Feeling Place
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
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
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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Average Difficult Paper Reading Science Understand
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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Existence Science Yourself
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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Action Biology Problem
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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Human Kind Man Reproduction Run
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 comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
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Agreement Comparison Measurement Production

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