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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Francis Crick

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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Agreement Comparison Measurement Production
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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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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Biology Chemistry Explanation Fact Modern Movement
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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Country Earth Myself Opinion People Scare World
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
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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Believe Myself Structure
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.
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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
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Correction Group Place Reading Right Start
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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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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Brain Man Ourselves Science Study Universe
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

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