Francis Crick Quotes
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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Television isn't my career. Business is.
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Her poverty was naked on the empty streets, and if no one walked abroad she felt all the more ghastly, like a wretched sinner in the sight of God.
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Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
