The basic trouble is that nature is so complex that many quite different theories can go some way to explaining the results.... What constraints can be used as a guide through the jungle of possible theories? It seems to me that the only useful constraints are contained in the experimental evidence.


What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery, Chapter 13 (p. 141), Basic Books, Inc., Publishers. 1988

Francis Crick Quotes

The basic trouble is that nature is so complex that many quite different theories can go some way to explaining the results.... What constraints can...

The basic trouble is that nature is so complex that many quite different theories can go some way to explaining the results.... What constraints can...

The basic trouble is that nature is so complex that many quite different theories can go some way to explaining the results.... What constraints can...

The basic trouble is that nature is so complex that many quite different theories can go some way to explaining the results.... What constraints can...