james-watson

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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
a08d000	"It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry--which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books--that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. As far as I am aware the presently accepted set of twenty amino acids was first drawn up by	nature science gamow george-gamow generalizations nobel-laureate james-d-watson james-watson watson striking	Francis Crick
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

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

a08d000

"It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry--which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books--that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. As far as I am aware the presently accepted set of twenty amino acids was first drawn up by

nature science gamow george-gamow generalizations nobel-laureate james-d-watson james-watson watson striking

Francis Crick

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