Francis Crick on country
Francis Crick54 quotes“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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Francis CrickFrancis Crick A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick God is a hacker, not an engineer.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick Evolution is cleverer than you are.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick 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.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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