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

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.

Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

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.

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

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.