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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

Francis Crick

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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Evidence Freedom Science System
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
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
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
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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Biology Information Material Myself 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
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
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
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
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
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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Country Earth Myself Opinion People Scare World
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Religion Reveal Wrong
A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Accomplishment Man Right Time
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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Education Learning People Research Work
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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Bad Evidence Foundation Goodness Legal Logic
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

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