title: What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
author:  Francis Crick 
description: The man who is widely acknowledged to be the best biologist since Darwin, the co-discoverer of DNA, tells his side of the story in this widely-praised memoir. <i>Sloan Foundation Science Series</i>.
zlib_text: Crimsy
  
  Michael Martin
  
  
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  To the rebels, who make science  
  the wonder that it is.
  
  
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  Crimsy is fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and actual persons,
  living or dead, real or imagined, are used fictitiously.
  
  Copyright © 20 2 1 Michael J. Martin
  
  All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction, in whole or in part,
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  Published in the United States by Heart Beat Publications, LLC.
  
  Cover design by Robin Vuchnich
  
  I nspired by Saul Bass’s opening titles for the 1960s television classic Lost
  in Space.  
  
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  Printed in the United States of America.
  
  
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  ##  One
  
  T his much was clear: We had to determine whether the most phenomenal
  discovery in the history of science was nothing more than a fluke. Was
  Crimsococcus halocryophilus really and truly from Mars? O r was it