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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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Francis Harry Compton Crick
Francis H.C. Crick
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A busy life is a wasted life.
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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
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This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
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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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Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
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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.
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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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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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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
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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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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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It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
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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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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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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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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
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