Top 26 Double Helix Quotes
#1. Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
Kate Mosse
#2. All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.
Maya Angelou
#3. I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.
James D. Watson
#4. Floote, what is going on? Do they think I
am contagious? Should I assure them I was
born with a nose this size?
Gail Carriger
#5. M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm?
J: He's just a fiend. We barely know each other.
M: Nice, The stuff dreams are made of.
Kelly Bingham
#6. [Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although he was pleased with the double-helix, he 'rather wished the idea had been his'.
Linus Pauling
#7. You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.
Amy Dickinson
#8. You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#9. The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short.
Aldous Huxley
#10. She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
Jeanette Winterson
#11. If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
James D. Watson
#12. If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.
Ava Helen Pauling
#13. 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
#14. Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours ...
James D. Watson
#15. The strands of the DNA double helix are held together by hydrogen bonding interactions between the complementary base pairs. Heating DNA in solution easily breaks these hydrogen bonds, allowing the two strands to separate - a process called denaturation or melting.
Richard J. Roberts
#16. When she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire
William Faulkner
#17. [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
#18. 'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try.
James D. Watson
#19. If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
Francis Crick
#20. Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that.
Frederick Lenz
#21. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Stephen Hawking
#23. Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
David Hare
#24. Wasn't loving him like loving the sun, so beautiful and warm, essential to light but deadly if you got too close?
Jenny Trout
#25. I feel confident I should have been a rebel Angel had the opportunity been mine.
John Keats
#26. Is this all we are? A necklace of chemicals? Where, in the double helix, does the soul lie?
Tess Gerritsen
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