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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

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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.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Born: June 8, 1916
Died: July 28, 2004 (aged 88)
Bio: Francis Harry Compton Crick 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.
Known for:
  1. The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)
  2. What Mad Pursuit (1988)
  3. Of Molecules and Men (1966)
  4. Une vie à découvrir (1989)
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