While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

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.

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

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.

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.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

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.

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

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

If I live...I will live unafraid...I will live so all can see, I am not ashamed of who I am or what I'm designed to be!"-The Great Mephisto

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good.

The soul is timeless and nonlocal.