In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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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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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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.
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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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When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.
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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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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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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure”.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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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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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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