“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 Watson and myself in the summer of 1953 in response to a letter of Gamow's.” ScienceNatureWatsonBiochemistryNobel LaureateGeneralizationsStrikingJames WatsonJames D WatsonGamowGeorge Gamow Author:Francis Crick
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle 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 Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotle's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.” ScienceUnderstandingKnowledgeIntellectNewtonWatsonEinsteinDarwinPlanckAristotleCharles DarwinAlbert EinsteinIsaac NewtonPolymathJames WatsonMax PlanckCrickFrancis CrickJames D Watson Author:Richard Dawkins