In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
FRANCIS CRICKThe 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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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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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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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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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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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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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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How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.
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