How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?

Francis Crick

Human beings... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.

Francis Crick

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

Francis Crick

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

Francis Crick

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

Francis Crick

A busy life is a wasted life.

Francis Crick

I had discovered the gossip test—what you are really interested in is what you gossip about.

Francis Crick

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

Francis Crick

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

Francis Crick

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

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

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

Francis Crick