You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
FRANCIS CRICKA 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.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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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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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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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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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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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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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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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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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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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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.
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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 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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