Francis Crick Quotes

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

I don't think I'm as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don't think I'm not as revolutionary as Galileo.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian.

Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.

You could say science also is an art.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.