Crick Dna Quotes

#1. And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

Salvador Dali

#2. some anyway, before Landry

John Benedict

#3. At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

Lee Krasner

#4. It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

Francis Crick

#5. At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

James D. Watson

#6. Francis Crick, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA, believes that DNA could only have arrived from space, sent in the form of bacteria from more advanced civilizations.

Walker Percy

#7. So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn't touch. This gave them a sort of twisted ladder - the famed double helix.

Sam Kean

#8. He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953.

Sydney Brenner

#9. I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

Linus Pauling

#10. We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

Geoffrey Canada

#11. My name does help me get in the door, but it doesn't do the work for me.

Gia Coppola

#12. One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.

Francis Crick

#13. [When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]
Oh, no. Absolutely not ... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

James D. Watson

#14. Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

Francis Crick

#15. I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

Wayne Thiebaud

#16. The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

R. Lee Ermey