Francis Crick Quotes

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.