Francis Crick Believe Quotations

When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.

A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.

Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.