In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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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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For 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.
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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
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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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We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.
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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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