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.
FRANCIS CRICKThere is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
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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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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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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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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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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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Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don’t know where you’re going. You’re just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.
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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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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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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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