Francis Crick Quotes

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

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• He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Like
  • White
  • Martini

• When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to Disneyland for a few hours with my siblings. We just have fun, go on all the rides together, and eat all of the good food.

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • People
  • Company
  • Loved

• Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

  

  Sallust
  • Wise
  • Gods
  • Prayers

• The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Always
  • Republic
  • Mediocrities

• I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Difficult

• If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.

  

  Miranda July
  • People
  • Star
  • Get

• I think it's important that we do it defeat ISIS in concert with other nations in Europe, the Middle East, elsewhere if necessary. And that means you've got to work with people. You don't insult them. You don't insult their religion. And it means we have to see our entire country, all of the people in it, as part of our first line of defense.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Europe
  • Nations
  • Middle East

• No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Progress
  • Path
  • Individual

• I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Hair
  • Faces
  • Advantage

• We are freed to free others. We are affirmed to affirm others. We are loved to love others.

  

  Ann Weems
  • Loved
  • Freed
  • Affirmed

• The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • World
  • Humorous
  • Tragic

• I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*." -pg 138-9

  

  Dean Hughes
  • Memory
  • Means
  • Rather

• I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

  

  Alfred Wainwright
  • Mind
  • Satisfaction
  • Mountains

• Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Better
  • Sacrifice

• Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Mind
  • Judgment
  • Butterfly

• When I was doing 'Baahubali 2,' the story was being discussed with many people. The story evolved over 9-10 months in that way.

  

  Rana Daggubati
  • People
  • Story
  • Evolved

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

  

  Francis Crick
  • Designed
  • Constantly
  • Evolved