In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
FRANCIS CRICKIt 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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A busy life is a wasted life.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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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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Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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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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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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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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