When times get tough, true novelty is needed — novelty whose important features cannot be preplanned — and for this we must rely on chance. Chance is the only source of true novelty.


Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature - Chapter 4 (p. 58), Simon & Schuster. 1981

Francis Crick Quotes

When times get tough, true novelty is needed — novelty whose important features cannot be preplanned — and for this we must rely on chance....

When times get tough, true novelty is needed — novelty whose important features cannot be preplanned — and for this we must rely on chance....

When times get tough, true novelty is needed — novelty whose important features cannot be preplanned — and for this we must rely on chance....

When times get tough, true novelty is needed — novelty whose important features cannot be preplanned — and for this we must rely on chance....