Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
FRANCIS CRICKAvoid 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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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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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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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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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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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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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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