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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

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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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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Education Learning People Research Work
You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
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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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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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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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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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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Explanation Fact Theory Wrong
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
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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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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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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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