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

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

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

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

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

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.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.