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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Francis Crick

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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Biology Born Possible Reproduction Science
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
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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Correction Group Place Reading Right Start
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Believe Earth Help Need. Mental Old
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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Biology Chemistry Explanation Fact Modern Movement
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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Criticism Friendship Goodness Measurement Science Value
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Dangerous Death Fight Himself Ideas Thinking
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Children Privacy Religion Teaching Young
Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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Believe Myself Structure
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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Existence Science Yourself
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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Body Death Education People Soul Time
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Professional Technology Yourself
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Enemy Knowledge One Liner
A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Accomplishment Man Right Time

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