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 CRICKProtein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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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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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid – usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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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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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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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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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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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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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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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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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.
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