Francis Crick Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Origin Of Life, Mind

  Francis Crick (2008). “What Mad Pursuit”, p.104, Hachette UK

• An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

  Francis Crick

  Men, Origin Of Life, Miracle

  "Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature". Book by Francis Crick, 1981.

• To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.

  Francis Crick

  Nature, Lying, Science

• Evolution is cleverer than you are.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Graphic Design, Evolution

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