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A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

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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Geneticist
Molecular Biologist
Neuroscientist
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Francis Harry Compton Crick
Francis H.C. Crick
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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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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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Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.
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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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The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.
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You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
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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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Evolution is cleverer than you are.
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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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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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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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If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
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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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A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
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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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Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
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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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