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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.

Francis Crick

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Professional Technology Yourself
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Experience Intellectual Mathematics
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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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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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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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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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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Brain Man Ourselves Science Study Universe
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
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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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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Escape Eyes Notice Ourselves Possible Science
My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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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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Human Kind Man Reproduction Run
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.
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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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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
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