Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
FRANCIS CRICKA comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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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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Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don’t know where you’re going. You’re just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
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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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A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
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The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
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It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
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For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the – class as having one too few.
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A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
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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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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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