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

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

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.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

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.

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

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.