Francis Crick
Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRSwas 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. Together with Watson and Maurice 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"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 June 1916
Francis Crick quotes about
art dna discovery
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 impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case.
running long guarantees
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
inspirational hackers engineers
God is a hacker, not an engineer
free-will
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
believe independent people
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
dna rna use
It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
horse pigs molecules
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, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.
country believe years
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.
neurons packs
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
choices free-choice
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.
cells balance doe
The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
movement facts chemistry
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
science average paper
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
atheist ifs
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.