There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

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.

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

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.