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Francis Crick Biography

Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 with James Watson, work which was based partly on fundamental studies done by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Maurice Wilkins. Together with Watson and Wilkins, he was jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

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If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

Bad, Code, Doe, Evidence, Foundation, Logical

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

Thinking, Class, Simplicity, Extra, Message, Think

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 general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

May, Acid, Triplet, Possibly, Several

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, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.

Good, Lying, Nature, Physicists, Science, See

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?

Beliefs, Erroneous, Ideas, Quite, Religion, Views

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

Acid, Agreement, Measure, Mutation, Shows

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

Believe, Educated, Independent, Life, People

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

Aim, Chemistry, Facts, Movement

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 finally clinches into place.

Ideas, Feelings, Mind, Unless, Feeling, Sudden

Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.

Enemy, Knowledge, Science, Vitalism

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

Advancement, Away, Humans, Long, Mankind, Running

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

Average, Paper, Prose, Read, Science, Scientific

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

Engineering, Hacking, Reverse

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 that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.

Believe, Country, Earth, Frightening, Numbers

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

Trying, Negative, Too Much, Sensible, Experimentalists

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

Anterior, Cingulate, Free, Free Will, Located, Sulcus

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 structure of the gene. . . . We could not see what the answer was, but we considered it so important that we were determined to think about it long and hard, from any relevant point of view.

Answer, Discovery, Jim, Science, See, Thinking

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Down, Engineering, Listening, Piano, Science, Sound

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Experience, Intellectually, Lazy, Logic, Math

God is a hacker, not an engineer

Engineer, Engineers, God, Hacker, Hackers, Inspirational

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