Francis Crick

1916–2004 · British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the

Topics: learning, biology

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

  — Francis Crick

• The job of theorists, especially in biology, is to suggest new experiments. A good theory makes not only predictions, but surprising predictions that then turn out to be true. (If its predictions appear obvious to experimentalists, why would they need a theory?)

  — Francis Crick

• Big questions get big answers.

  — Francis Crick

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

  — Francis Crick