Best Francis Crick Sayings
- Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or… Along
- A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein… Acid
- There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. Average
- Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action. Action
- Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don't know where you're going. You're just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and… Afterwards
- It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… Clinches
- It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty… Acid
- 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. Brain
- It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… Clicks
- The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it. Dangerous
- Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children. Adults
- Evolution is cleverer than you are. Cleverer
- The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about… Blundering
- Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. Biologist
- 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,… Basic
- Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness,… Arrogance