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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus. 
You can do reverse engineering, but you can't do reverse hacking. 
Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition. 
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism. 
God is a hacker, not an engineer 
We've discovered the secret of life. 
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind. 
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice. 
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. 
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong. 
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. 
All approaches at a higher level are suspect until confirmed at the molecular level. 
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. 
A busy life is a wasted life. 
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living. 
Chance is the only source of true novelty. 
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help. 
You're nothing but a pack of neurons. 
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. 
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive. 