...theory that can account for all of the facts is wrong, because some of the facts are always wrong." Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA If you don't want your kids to develop nut allergies, then let them eat peanut butter while still infants. That's...
...the Editor: Jeffrey Marsh's critique of Francis Crick's The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul [Books in Review, April], illustrates once again the seeming incapacity of certain gifted scientists like Crick and other members of the...
...crime." In the dim hallway leading to the lab are framed, black-and-white prints of forensic pioneers: Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and James Watson. The actual laboratory is separated from the office section of the building, accessible...
...neuroscientists. "You are your brain," says Nobel prize-winner Eric Kandel; "You are nothing but a bunch of neurons," wrote Francis Crick. The problem with this reductionism is to equate a part with a whole - an error I was fully guilty of when, many years...
...recommendations require political backing. Challenge rage through intermediaries. James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins’ discovery of the structure of DNA has been hailed by fellow Nobel Laureates as the greatest scientific discovery...
...1953, the world marveled as Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to crest the summit of Mount Everest. Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, and Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of England. But for...
...emerge? How was the uniquely human capacity for self-consciousness born? How did life evolve at such speed that even Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, was forced to suggest that it came from Mars? And the ultimate ontological question: why is there something...
...sectarian spin to present a generous selection from the finest popular science of the past 100 years. From JBS Haldane and Francis Crick to Steven Pinker and Jared Diamond, Dawkins picks and matches with an eye not merely for grandeur of thought but felicity...
...learned that he lacked an interest in proteins and that he wanted to study DNA. Soon after arriving at the lab, he met Francis Crick and the two quickly discovered their mutual interest in investigating DNA. At the time, Crick was a 35-year-old graduate student,...
...that DNA could exist in two forms: a crystalline form and a wet one. During the same period, biologists James Watson and Francis Crick were conducting DNA research at Cambridge University. Watson and Crick were not doing experiments on DNA. Instead, they were...