A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.
FRANCIS CRICKA busy life is a wasted life.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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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.
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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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.
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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.
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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.
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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.
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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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.
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Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
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Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
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When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.
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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.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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.
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How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
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It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
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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.
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