A busy life is a wasted life. Francis Crick More Quotes by Francis Crick More Quotes From Francis Crick 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 independent believe people 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. Francis Crick dna science thinking 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. Francis Crick rna viruses dna You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking. Francis Crick hacking engineering reverse An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. Francis Crick origin-of-life miracle men A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much. Francis Crick men There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. Francis Crick paper average science In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign. Francis Crick strong reading math Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity. Francis Crick horse pigs science Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus. Francis Crick free-will God is a hacker, not an engineer Francis Crick hackers engineers inspirational One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together. Francis Crick achievement dna keys We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind. Francis Crick guarantees running long In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. Francis Crick logic lazy math You’re nothing but a pack of neurons. Francis Crick neurons packs A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. Francis Crick records age believe If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case. Francis Crick impact science art 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? Francis Crick views ideas religion Evolution is cleverer than you are. Francis Crick graphic-design evolution science 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 acid backbone groups
