Watson Crick Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

Jeff Tweedy

#4. We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us

Jim Morrison

#5. 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

#6. Night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.

Eloisa James

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

Francis Crick

#8. [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

#9. Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

Wilfred Bion

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

Thomas Huxley

#14. It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

Glenn Hoddle

#15. Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.

Gerald Schroeder

#16. 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

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

James D. Watson

#18. I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

CeeLo Green

#19. All these people dead, and I miss pretty things.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. You don't just fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.

Lance Armstrong

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

Salvador Dali