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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
Of Molecules and Men (1966)
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)
The visual information provided by our eyes can be ambiguous.
The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)
You are easily deceived by your visual system.
The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)
Before I describe in more detail exactly what is involved in seeing, let me make three general remarks.
The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)
Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
What Mad Pursuit (1988)
Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene.
What Mad Pursuit (1988)
"You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (1994)
And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.
Of Molecules and Men (1966)
Seeing is a constructive process.
The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)
Big questions get big answers.
Life Story (1987)
The job of theorists, especially in biology, is to suggest new experiments. A good theory makes not only predictions, but surprising predictions that then turn out to be true. (If its predictions appear obvious to experimentalists, why would they need a theory?)
What Mad Pursuit (1988)