Chance is the only source of true novelty.

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.

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.

If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case.

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

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.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.