Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
FRANCIS CRICKThe 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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A busy life is a wasted life.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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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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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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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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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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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 balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
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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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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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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.
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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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