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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.

Francis Crick

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Difficult Live World
God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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God One Liner Science
It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
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Appearance Nature Ourselves Security
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
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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Biology Code Direction Evidence Science
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
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Children Privacy Religion Teaching Young
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Chance Novel True
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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Clever Evolution Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Believe Earth Help Need. Mental Old
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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Avoid Serious Temptation Thinking Time

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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