Quotes from Sir Bernard Rowland Crick

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.