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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.

Francis Crick

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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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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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
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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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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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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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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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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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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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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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