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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.

Francis Crick

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Francis Crick
Age: 88 †
Born: 1916
Born: June 8
Died: 2004
Died: July 28
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Francis Harry Compton Crick
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