101 Quotes by Francis Crick

Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.