There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don't know where you're going. You're just groping. Then people learn about… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately… — Francis Crick Copy Share
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by… — Francis Crick Copy Share
“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the… — Francis Crick Copy Share
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. — Francis Crick Copy Share
One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in… — Francis Crick Copy Share
For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and… — Francis Crick Copy Share
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick Copy Share
Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing… — Francis Crick Copy Share
Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one… — Francis Crick Copy Share
I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed,… — Francis Crick Copy Share
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… — Francis Crick Copy Share
If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which… — Francis Crick Copy Share
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