Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
FRANCIS CRICKYou can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
More Francis Crick Quotes
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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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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid – usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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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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If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
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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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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
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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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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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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
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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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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry – which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks – that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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