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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

Francis Crick

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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Correction Group Place Reading Right Start
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
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 man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Accomplishment Man Right Time
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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Biology Design Evolution Mindset Science See
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
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
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
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Bad Evidence Foundation Goodness Legal Logic
Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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Believe Myself Structure
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
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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Argument Experiment Impression Negative Possible
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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Clever Evolution Yourself
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
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Dangerous Death Fight Himself Ideas Thinking
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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