Francis Crick

Good science is collaborative; bad science is competitive.

The human genome will reveal the secrets of our evolution.

Consciousness is a biological phenomenon.

We must be careful not to attribute to chance what is really due to design.

The brain is a neural network, but understanding it requires more than that.

Life's instructions are written in DNA.

Scientific discovery is a communal activity.

The code is degenerate, meaning multiple codons for one amino acid.

To understand life, we must understand the molecule.

Humor is essential in science to keep spirits high.

The double helix was a beautiful structure.

Evolution works through natural selection on genetic variation.

I have never been much interested in the quite fatuous philantropy of Captains of industry.

The soul is nothing more than the brain in action.

Proteins are the workhorses of the cell.

Discovery often comes from bold hypotheses.

The genetic material must be able to store information.

In science, as in life, persistence pays off.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

The central dogma of molecular biology deals with the detailed residue-by-residue transfer of sequential information.