Watson And Crick Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Francis Crick

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

Salvador Dali

#5. I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.

Mike Wallace

#6. I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so to judge him.

James D. Watson

#7. What if we started to live our real lives like gamers, lead our real businesses and communities like game designers, and think about solving real-world problems like computer and video game theorists?

Jane McGonigal

#8. Agent Reed returned this morning, ready for another round of what he calls an interview and what I refer to as an interrogation.

C.J. Roberts

#9. Accidents are built into the road.

Marty Rubin

#10. Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Thomas Merton

#11. Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only

Robert Jordan

#12. [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

#13. You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being ... Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

Richard Dawkins

#14. 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

#15. Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them.

Lynda Barry

#16. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#17. He's right and I'm pissed. I'm mad because I'm no longer a Jawbreaker. I'm more of a Gummy Bear or a friggin' Laffy Taffy.

Tracey Ward

#18. I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and closets.

Gregory Wasson

#19. 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

#20. From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.

Jim Norton

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

James D. Watson

#22. What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital ... the machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like.' -Richard Dawkins

Matt Ridley