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      • "What mad pursuit" is a quotation from Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn."Crick describes the red herrings, sloppy science, unsound, unproven ideas and fiascoes that confront the research scientist. He also describes the flights of sheer brilliance and courage that accompany any scientific discovery.
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  1. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery is a book published in 1988 and written by Francis Crick, the English co-discoverer in 1953 of the structure of DNA.

  2. What Mad Pursuit is a slender, popular volume, putatively about Crick's pursuits in molecular biology and the discoveries (with James Watson) of the DNA structure & the genetic code, but actually about Crick's personal experiences with scientific discoveries.

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  3. Jul 10, 1990 · What Mad Pursuit is a slender, popular volume, putatively about Crick's pursuits in molecular biology and the discoveries (with James Watson) of the DNA structure & the genetic code, but actually about Crick's personal experiences with scientific discoveries.

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  4. Sep 8, 2020 · ix, 182 pages, [8] pages of plates : 20 cm. The autobiography of Francis Crick, one of the founders of modern biology and the other half of the Watson/Crick team that revealed the structure of DNA in 1961. Crick won the Nobel Prize in 1962. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1988.

  5. What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard. Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave.

  6. Aug 6, 2008 · What Mad Pursuit. Francis Crick. Basic Books, Aug 6, 2008 - Science - 208 pages. Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of...

  7. Jan 1, 1988 · The epilogue comprises of Crick’s dabbles into cognitive sciences focusing on the workings of visual systems in animals. What Mad Pursuit is a candid, modest account of one of the finest minds in biology and portrays Crick’s knack of choosing the most pressing and the most important questions to pursue.