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It doesn't matter if we're young. If you love someone, and it's right ... We can make it the whole way, Crick.
— Deb Caletti
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
— Bernard Crick
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
— Francis Crick
If you want to understand function, study structure,
— Francis Crick
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
— Bernard Crick
Evolution is cleverer than you are.
— Francis Crick
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
— Francis Crick
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
— Francis Crick
Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
— Francis Crick
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
— Francis Crick
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
— Francis Crick
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
— Francis Crick
How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?
— Francis Crick
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] — Francis Crick
[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] — Francis Crick
A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.
— Francis Crick
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
— Francis Crick
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
— Francis Crick
Good things don't always lead to bad ones, Crick.
— Deb Caletti
The RCP's belief that capitalism was on the point of collapse started to look somewhat unconvincing. And
— Michael Crick
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.
— Francis Crick
I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so to judge him.
— James D. Watson
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
— Bernard Crick
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
— Bernard Crick
All approaches at a higher level are suspect until confirmed at the molecular level.
— Francis Crick
He reached a large stream, of the kind the locals called a creek and pronounced crick, and decided to follow it.
— Neil Gaiman
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
— 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
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
— Bernard Crick
A busy life is a wasted life.
— Francis Crick
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
— Ursula Parrott
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
— Bernard Crick
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
— Francis Crick
Chance is the only source of true novelty.
— Francis Crick
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.
— Francis Crick
You're nothing but a pack of neurons.
— Francis Crick
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.
— Francis Crick
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence ... politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
— Bernard Crick
Free men stick their necks out.
— Bernard Crick
Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.
— Francis Crick
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
— Francis Crick
God is a hacker, not an engineer
— Francis Crick
We've discovered the secret of life.
— Francis Crick
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
— Bernard Crick
My brother then bought 1000 Japanese cameras. They all go, "Crick".
— Henny Youngman
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
— Bernard Crick
At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.
— James D. Watson
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
— Bernard Crick
Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
— Bernard Crick
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom.
— Bernard Crick
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
— Bernard Crick
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
— Francis Crick
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
— Bernard Crick
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
— Francis Crick