Francis Crick Quotes

Science demands patience.

What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one.

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That's where science starts.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

I'm very interested in science.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.