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.
FRANCIS CRICKThe dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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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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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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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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When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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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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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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