There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

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

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

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.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.