You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
FRANCIS CRICK
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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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We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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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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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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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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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.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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If 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.
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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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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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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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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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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