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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
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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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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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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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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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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In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
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Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.
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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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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
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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.
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If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
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Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
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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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Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.
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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
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What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?
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