It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
FRANCIS CRICKA busy life is a wasted life.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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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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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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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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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It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
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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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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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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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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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