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"You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

— Francis Crick The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (1994)

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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.

Of Molecules and Men (1966)

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

The visual information provided by our eyes can be ambiguous.

The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

You are easily deceived by your visual system.

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