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Francis Crick
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Francis Crick
Age: 88 †
Born: 1916
Born: June 8
Died: 2004
Died: July 28
Biochemist
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Molecular Biologist
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Francis Harry Compton Crick
Francis H.C. Crick
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How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
Francis Crick
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
Francis Crick
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
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While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
Francis Crick
I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was very average.
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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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A busy life is a wasted life.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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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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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
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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.
Francis Crick
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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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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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
Francis Crick
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.
Francis Crick
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 Crick
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
Francis Crick
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.
Francis Crick
