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Francis Crick - The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

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

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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.

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Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.

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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

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A single neuron may be rather dumb, but it is dumb in many subtle ways.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Francis Crick

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Born: June 8, 1916
Died: July 28, 2004 (aged 88)
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