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Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS fue un físico, biólogo molecular y neurocientífico británico, conocido sobre todo por ser uno de los dos descubridores de la estructura molecular del ADN en 1953, junto con James D. Watson.

Recibió, junto a James D. Watson y Maurice Wilkins el Premio Nobel de Medicina en 1962 "por sus descubrimientos concernientes a la estructura molecular de los ácidos nucleicos y su importancia para la transferencia de información en la materia viva".

Asimismo, recibió también las medallas Royal y Copley de la Royal Society de Londres , y también la Orden del Mérito .

✵ 8. junio 1916 – 28. julio 2004
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Frases célebres de Francis Crick

“Casi todos los aspectos de la vida se organizan en el nivel molecular, y si no entendemos las moléculas nuestra comprensión de la vida misma será muy incompleta.”

Francis Crick

Sobre el ADN.

“A pesar de que el código genético es casi universal, el mecanismo necesario para estructurarlo es demasiado complejo para haber surgido de un solo golpe.”

Francis Crick

Fuente: Life Itself, Its Origin and Nature, por Francis Crick, 1981, p. 71.

“Casi todas las consideraciones recientes del origen del universo se basan en la teoría de la Gran Explosión.”

Francis Crick

Fuente: Life Itself, por Francis Crick, 1981, p. 30.

“Hemos descubierto el secreto de la vida.”

Francis Crick

Al describir la estructura en doble hélice de la molécula de ADN, en 1953. En 2003 esta cita de Crick se utilizó en los matasellos conmemorativos del cincuentenario en el Reino Unido.
Fuente: Norvic Philatelics http://www.norphil.co.uk/2003/dna.htm

“Una de las cosas más terribles en el mundo occidental, y en este país en particular, es la cantidad de gente que cree en cosas que son científicamente falsas. Si alguien me dice que la Tierra tiene menos de 10.000 años, en mi opinión debería ver a un psiquiatra.”

Francis Crick

Fuente: Machines Likeus http://www.machineslikeus.com/People/Crick_Francis.html

“Un hombre honrado, armado con todo el conocimiento a nuestra disposición ahora, solo podría declarar que, en algún sentido, por el momento el origen de la vida parece casi milagroso.”

Francis Crick

Fuente: Crick, Francis. Life itself. Publicado en 1981. p. 88.

Francis Crick: Frases en inglés

“The job of theorists, especially in biology, is to suggest new experiments. A good theory makes not only predictions, but surprising predictions that then turn out to be true. (If its predictions appear obvious to experimentalists, why would they need a theory?) ”

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p, 125
What Mad Pursuit (1988)

“Big questions get big answers.”

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Life Story (1987, BBC)

“Before I describe in more detail exactly what is involved in seeing, let me make three general remarks.”

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The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

“I wasn't aware of Chargaff's rules when he said them, but the effect on me was quite electric because I realized immediately that if you had this sort of scheme that John Griffith was proposing, of adenine being paired with thymine, and guanine being paired with cytosine, then you should get Chargaff's rules. I was very excited, but I didn't actually tell Chargaff because it was something I was doing with John Griffith…. This was very exciting, and we thought "ah ha!" and we realized - I mean what anyone who is familiar with the history of science ought to realize - that when you have one-to-one ratios, it means things go to together. And how on Earth no one pointed out this simple fact in those years, I don't know.”

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The DNA Story (1973, film, VSM Productions)

“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. But this should not be taken to imply that there are good reasons to believe that it could not have started on the earth by a perfectly reasonable sequence of fairly ordinary chemical reactions. The plain fact is that the time available was too long, the many microenvironments on the earth's surface too diverse, the various chemical possibilities too numerous and our own knowledge and imagination too feeble to allow us to be able to unravel exactly how it might or might not have happened such a long time ago, especially as we have no experimental evidence from that era to check our ideas against.”

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New York NY: Simon & Schuster, 1981, p. 88.
Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature (1981)

“And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.”

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Of Molecules and Men (1966)

“Philosophers have been especially concerned with the problem of consciousness—for example, how to explain the redness of red or the painfulness of pain. This is a very thorny issue. The problem springs from the fact that the redness of red that I perceive so vividly cannot be precisely communicated to another human being, at least in the ordinary course of events. If you cannot describe the properties of a thing unambiguously, you are likely to have some difficulty trying to explain these properties in reductionist terms.”

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The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

“What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later, mechanisms added to the earlier ones. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research. While DNA could be claimed to be both simple and elegant, it must be remembered that DNA almost certainly originated fairly close to the origin of life when things were necessarily simple or they would not have got going.
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. It might be thought, therefore, that evolutionary arguments would play a large part in guiding biological research, but this is far from the case. It is difficult enough to study what is happening now. To figure out exactly what happened in evolution is even more difficult. Thus evolutionary achievements can be used as hints to suggest possible lines of research, but it is highly dangerous to trust them too much. It is all too easy to make mistaken inferences unless the process involved is already very well understood.”

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What Mad Pursuit (1988)

“Our brains have evolved mainly to deal with our body and its interactions with the world it senses to be around us. Is this world real? This is a venerable philosophical issue and I do not wish to be embroiled in the finely honed squabbles to which it has led. I merely state my own working hypothesis: that there is indeed an outside world, and that it is largely independent of our observing it. We can never fully know this outside world, but we can obtain approximate information about some aspects of its properties by using our senses and our brain.”

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The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

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

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What Mad Pursuit (1988)

“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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Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966, p. 10.
Of Molecules and Men (1966)

“My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists’: “If you want to understand function, study structure,” I was supposed to have said in my molecular biology days. (I believe I was sailing at the time.) I think that one should approach these problems at all levels, as was done in molecular biology. Classical genetics is, after all, a black-box subject. The important thing was to combine it with biochemistry. In nature hybrid species are usually sterile, but in science the reverse is often true. Hybrid subjects are often astonishingly fertile, whereas if a scientific discipline remains too pure it usually wilts.”

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What Mad Pursuit (1988)

“If for example I had some idea, which as it turned out would be quite wrong, was going off of the tangent, Watson would tell me in no uncertain terms this was nonsense, and vice-versa. If he would have some idea I didn't like, and I would say so, this would shake his thinking about, and draw him back again. And in fact it is one of the requirements for collaborations of this sort, is you must be perfectly candid, one might almost say rude, to the person you're working with. It's useless working with somebody who is either much too junior than yourself or much too senior because then politeness creeps in. And this is the end of all real collaboration in science”

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The Prizewinners (11 December 1962, BBC)

“I argued that it was important not to place too much reliance on any single piece of experimental evidence. It might turn out to be misleading, as the 5.1 Å reflection undoubtedly was. Jim was a little more brash, stating that no good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong. A theory that did fit all the data would have been "carpentered" to do so and would thus be open to suspicion.”

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Fuente: What Mad Pursuit (1988), pp. 59-60

“Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.”

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What Mad Pursuit (1988)

“The job of theorists, especially in biology, is to suggest new experiments. A good theory makes not only predictions, but surprising predictions that then turn out to be true.”

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If its predictions appear obvious to experimentalists, why would they need a theory?
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