Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
FRANCIS CRICKRather 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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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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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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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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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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid – usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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