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.
FRANCIS CRICK
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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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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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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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
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When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.
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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 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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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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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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