Workers Quotes by Francis Crick

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

— Francis Crick

We've discovered the secret of life.

— Francis Crick

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by…

— Francis Crick

“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the…

— Francis Crick

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

— Francis Crick

One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in…

— Francis Crick

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and…

— Francis Crick

God is a hacker, not an engineer

— Francis Crick

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

— Francis Crick

Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing…

— Francis Crick

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one…

— Francis Crick