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• If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
• It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and…
• It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic…
• I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the…
• Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
• A busy life is a wasted life.
• Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy…
• Chance is the only source of true novelty.
• It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
• When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover…
• If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out…
• The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true…

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