Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
FRANCIS CRICKAvoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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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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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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