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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.

Francis Crick

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
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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Brain Complication Detail Essential Place See Understand Universe
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
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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Drama Easy Enlightenment Experience Feeling Place
We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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Experiment Myself Result Science Team Work
It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
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Biology Code Direction Evidence Science
My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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Function Prejudice Science Study Understand Yourself
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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Division Group Science
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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Body Death Education People Soul Time
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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Expression Motivational Myself Strong Work
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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Criticism Friendship Goodness Measurement Science Value
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Religion Reveal Wrong
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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Agreement Comparison Measurement Production
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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Action Biology Problem
A busy life is a wasted life.
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Busy Life One Liner Wasted Time
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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Biology Information Material Myself Science

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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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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