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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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
Francis H.C. Crick
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