The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
FRANCIS CRICKA theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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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 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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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry – which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks – that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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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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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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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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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 is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
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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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