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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.

Francis Crick

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
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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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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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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 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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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.
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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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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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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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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 ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
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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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