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Evolution is cleverer than you are.

Francis Crick

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
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
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
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Enemy Knowledge One Liner
My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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Function Prejudice Science Study Understand Yourself
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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Brain Complication Detail Essential Place See Understand Universe
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry – which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks – that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
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Generation Hard Nature Strike
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
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
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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Escape Eyes Notice Ourselves Possible Science
God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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God One Liner Science
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
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Chance Novel True
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
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Determination Listen Sound Structure Try
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

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