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In research the front line is almost always in a fog.

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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

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A single neuron may be rather dumb, but it is dumb in many subtle ways.

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Some scientists work so hard there is no time left for serious thinking.

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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.

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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

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Molecular biology can be defined as anything that interests molecular biologists.

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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

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Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.

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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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Nowadays most people know what DNA is, or if they don't know it must be a dirty word, like "chemical" or "synthetic."

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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

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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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A theory will always command more attention if it is supported by unexpected evidence, particularly evidence of a different kind.

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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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The first distinguishing characteristic of thinking is facing the facts - inquiry, minute and extensive scrutinizing, observation.

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Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene.

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Scientific thinking, which is analytic and objective, goes against the grain of traditional human thinking, which is associative and subjective.

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Mathematics cares neither for science nor for engineering (except as a source of problems) but only about the relationship between abstract entities.

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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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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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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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We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.

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The development of biology is going to destroy to some extent our traditional grounds for ethical belief, and it is not easy to see what to put in their place.

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Every time I write a paper on the origin of life, I determine I will never write another one, because there is too much speculation running after too few facts.

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The average adult can usually enjoy something only if it relates to what he knows already, and what he knows about science is in many cases pitifully inadequate.

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And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.

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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.

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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 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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