A busy life is a wasted life.
FRANCIS CRICK
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the – class as having one too few.
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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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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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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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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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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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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An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry – which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks – that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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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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