Francis Crick

The scientific community is usually quite conservative.

I was never a very good experimentalist.

The genetic code is a frozen accident.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

The structure of DNA is a double helix.

It is essential to be a bit arrogant to do good science.

I have always been fascinated by the brain.

The universe is a strange place.

Science is a game.

The genetic material must be able to replicate itself.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm a scientist.

The brain is the most complex thing in the universe.

It is always a good thing to be slightly eccentric.

The central dogma of molecular biology.

If you want to be a scientist, you have to be prepared to be wrong a lot.

The purpose of science is to make the mysterious obvious.

We are nothing but a pack of neurons.

The future of biology is in the brain.

I enjoy being controversial.

The universe is far more strange and wonderful than we can imagine.