Evolution is cleverer than you are.
FRANCIS CRICKHow 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 good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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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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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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