In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
FRANCIS CRICKA comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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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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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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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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid – usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
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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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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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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.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
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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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