A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
FRANCIS CRICKFree will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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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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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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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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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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 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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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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