It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

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.

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

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.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

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 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.

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

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

When a man is gloomy everything seems to go wrong when he is cheerful everything seems right!

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

Challenges will come to you, but as you trust in God, they will strengthen your faith.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.