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

Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.

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

If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.

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.

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".