P145 of What Mad Pursuit by Francis Crick

Reminded by a post from a friend on Facebook of the passage in Francis Crick's autobiography 'What Mad Pursuit' shown in this photo.

I remember I went to a lecture he gave at UCSD and asked him if he felt obliged to work harder rather than taking time to think, now he was in the US.

He smiled and said 'they try to make me, but I resist'. He did sign my copy of his autobiography though!