You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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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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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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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
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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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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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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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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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One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.
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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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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
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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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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don’t know where you’re going. You’re just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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