God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

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.

Since I Essentially Knew Nothing, I Had An Almost Completely Free Choice.

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.

Exploratory Research Is Really Like Working In A Fog. You Don't Know Where You're Going. You're Just Groping. Then People Learn About It Afterwards And Think How Straightforward It Was.

The Dangerous Man Is The One Who Has Only One Idea, Because Then He'll Fight And Die For It.