A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
Francis CrickAgain the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.
Francis CrickThe balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.
Francis CrickThere is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
Francis Crick