A Busy Life Is A Wasted Life.

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.

It Is One Of The More Striking Generalizations Of Biochemistry - Which Surprisingly Is Hardly Ever Mentioned In The Biochemical Textbooks - That The Twenty Amino Acids And The Four Bases, Are, With Minor Reservations, The Same Throughout Nature.

Chance Is The Only Source Of True Novelty.

Our ... Advantage Was That We Had Evolved Unstated But Fruitful Methods Of Collaboration ... If Either Of Us Suggested A New Idea, The Other, While Taking It Seriously, Would Attempt To Demolish It In A Candid But Non-hostile Manner.

Anybody Who Believes That The Earth Is Less Than 10,000 Years Old Needs Psychiatric Help.