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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.

Francis Crick

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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Honesty Knowledge Life Man Miracle Satisfaction State
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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Agreement Comparison Measurement Production
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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Brain Man Ourselves Science Study Universe
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
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Drama Easy Enlightenment Experience Feeling Place
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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Detail Evidence Ideas Ourselves Science Type
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
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
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
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Action Biology Problem
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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Argument Experiment Impression Negative Possible
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Professional Technology Yourself
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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Biology Design Evolution Mindset Science See
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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Average Difficult Paper Reading Science Understand
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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Life Science Understand
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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Existence Science Yourself
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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Human Kind Man Reproduction Run
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Chance Novel True

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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