“Matt Ridley’s Francis Crick perceptively and warmly recounts the extraordinary life of the 20th century’s most important biologist.” — James D. Watson
“A nimble biography.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A considerably more complete and colorful portrait of Crick than has existed before.” — Nicholas Wade, New York Times
“Thoughtful. . .aptly conjures a forgotten scientific landscape. . .” — New York Times Book Review
“Lucid and riveting . . . Completely captivating, a lively and deeply intriguing account of one of biology’s most imaginative scientists.” — Kay Redfield Jamison
“Matt Ridley’s book reads beautifully, the science flowing along with the life, to form a unity.” — Aaron Klug
“This is a wonderful book--deeply substantive, lucid, trenchant, and witty. It tells the biggest story in modern biology.” — David Quammen
“A fitting tribute to a…canonical figure in modern science” — Publishers Weekly
“Ridley has captured the wonder of an unparalleled scientific mind at work and at play.” — Nicholas Wade, New York Times
Praise for Eminent Lives Series: FRANCIS CRICK and CHARLES DARWIN — --
“The reader gets a strong sense of how these men lived, what they achieved and how they achieved it.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Ridley captures Crick’s audacity, brilliance and, not least, eloquence…An excellent first biography” — Brenda Maddox, Sunday Times (London)
“Enjoyable…Ridley does an excellent job of escorting readers on [an] intellectual roller coaster ride.” — BioScience
