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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.

Francis Crick

Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Freedom Myself
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
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
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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Age Balance Earth Fundamental Impossible Intellectual Knowledge Record True
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 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
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Believe Earth Help Need. Mental Old
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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Biology Experience Experiment Intellectual Mathematics Negative Reading Strong
One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.
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Country Earth Myself Opinion People Scare World
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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Believe Difficult Discover Hard Science Start Yourself
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
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
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Children Privacy Religion Teaching Young
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Freedom Location
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Religion Reveal Wrong

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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