Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
FRANCIS CRICKA good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
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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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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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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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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
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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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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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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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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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