Advancement Quote by Francis Crick

“We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.” quote by Francis Crick — Download Open image

“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

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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. Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical…

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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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God is a hacker, not an engineer

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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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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 with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within…

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