There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
FRANCIS CRICKA busy life is a wasted life.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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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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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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An 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.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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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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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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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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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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