Evolution is cleverer than you are.
FRANCIS CRICKEvolution is cleverer than you are.
FRANCIS CRICKSince I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
FRANCIS CRICKIn my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
FRANCIS CRICKAvoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
FRANCIS CRICKChance is the only source of true novelty.
FRANCIS CRICKAgain 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.
FRANCIS CRICKOne of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.
FRANCIS CRICKWe have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
FRANCIS CRICKIf the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
FRANCIS CRICKAnybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
FRANCIS CRICKA 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.
FRANCIS CRICKAn honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
FRANCIS CRICKFor simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the – class as having one too few.
FRANCIS CRICKA man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
FRANCIS CRICKProtein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
FRANCIS CRICKIf revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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