It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.
FRANCIS CRICK
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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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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If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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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.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.
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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.
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A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.
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