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.
FRANCIS CRICKAnybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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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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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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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.
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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
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An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
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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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A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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 revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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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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