I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated … - Francis Crick

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Francis Crick

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

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If you want to understand function, study structure.

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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 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.

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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 see all around us.

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The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

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