A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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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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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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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We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.
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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.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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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 is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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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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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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