Book Review: "What Mad Pursuit" by author Francis Crick.

I intend to present a scholarly paper critiquing "What Mad Pursuit" by Francis Crick. The following pages answer and explore questions asked from the 'Physics 40S Book Review' sheet. Opinions expressed towards the author are not intended to be negative, just critical. After reading over this biography/non-fiction piece of literature, the theme of "What Mad Pursuit" is clear. However, the theme can be found even before Chapter 1. Francis Crick states himself that "the most …showed first 75 words of 1092 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1092 total…needed to prove a theory wrong. Creativity in science is more analytical, right side of the brain, compared to the arts, where creativity is expression. Someone who is a 'creative' person in arts, is generally thought of as being poetic and/or imaginative. Works Cited: Crick, Francis. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Science. Basic Books, New York, 1988. NCC: Communicating Chemistry. http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/ncc/allabout.htm. Last updated: unknown; Last viewed 22/10/05.