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 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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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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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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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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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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We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
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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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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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