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.

Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.

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.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

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.

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

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.