Human beings... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition. - Francis Crick

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Human beings... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.

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About Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953.

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Native Name: Francis Harry Compton Crick
Alternative Names: Francis H.C. Crick
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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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