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9cce14b "You could give a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after , , , , , and their colleagues. I'm not saying you're more intelligent than understanding science einstein aristotle crick francis-crick james-d-watson james-watson max-planck planck polymath watson charles-darwin darwin intellect knowledge isaac-newton newton Richard Dawkins
96467b4 "I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by discovery science discovery-of-dna nobel-laureate watson-and-crick dna francis-crick james-watson genetics Linus Pauling
bd0fe4a 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. double-helix linus-pauling molecular-structure nucleic-acids francis-crick james-watson Sam Kean