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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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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
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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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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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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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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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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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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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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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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