Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
FRANCIS CRICKOne 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.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
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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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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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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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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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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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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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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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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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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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