A Quote by Francis Crick

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

Francis Crick

Quote Topics

Define Difficult Living Word

Quote Author

Francis Crick
English - Scientist
June 8, 1916 - July 28, 2004

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

Francis Collins

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

Paul Goodman

India's notoriously difficult. It's visa routine is notoriously difficult to get a residency permit and all that stuff, so that threw up all kinds of complicated barriers for us. I remember once having to go meet with the foreign ministry official and say 'You know look I have a real problem here. Is this person really important to you?' And I just thought 'My God.' You know my wife and I have been together since college. You know it's 20 years.

Lydia Polgreen

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Donatella Versace

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Alan Greenspan

I don't write or think too much about the word "salvation." I might; I probably should. We are such needy creatures, needing to be saved, to feel we are saved or might be, however we define ourselves, however we define that word.

Pattiann Rogers

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

Clement Freud

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Mo Ibrahim

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

Tim Kaine

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

Frank Stella

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Edward St Aubyn

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Lawrence Block

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

Wallace Shawn

I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

Chuck D

Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.

Eckhart Tolle

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Bo Derek

A Quote by Francis Crick

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors