Evolution is cleverer than you are.
Interpretation
Evolution outsmarts human understanding and intellect.
This quote by Francis Crick suggests that the process of evolution is more complex and insightful than human intellect can fully comprehend. It highlights the remarkable adaptations and innovations that have arisen through natural selection, emphasizing that despite our intelligence, we are often blind to the sophisticated mechanisms of biological change over time.
In practice
In a scientific conference discussing biology, one might say, 'As Francis Crick suggests, evolution is cleverer than you are.'
One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
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.
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of whatβs happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.
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