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One Quotes by Francis Crick
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides…
- 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…
- We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put…
- It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in…
- The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one…
- For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the…
- 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…
- It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty…
- 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…
- The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
- To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them,…
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