Francis Crick Quotes

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• If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
• 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…
• It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
• 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…
• Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
• A busy life is a wasted life.
• 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…
• Chance is the only source of true novelty.
• It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
• 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…
• 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…
• Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies…
• 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,…
• One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things…
• 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…
• If you want to understand function, study structure,

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