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...Crick, who had actually begun his career as a physicist, remained ever the scientist, first investigating the workings of the living cell, turning next to a decade-long study of developmental biology and finally, in 1976, moving to California. There, he joined the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where for most of the past 17 years he has been involved in a study of the brain, specializing in the visual system because "I want to know how we see something." To requests for interviews or appearances, he politely replied by cards listing multiple choices ("Dr. Crick does not give interviews...
...Crick: The structure of DNA gives the game away, once you've seen it. A schoolboy can understand it. It's not something like relativity or quantum mechanics. It's a Tinkertoy, as somebody once said...
...first line of the book is, "I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood." Francis, I understand the publication caused you some distress...
...Crick: Oh, it did. When Jim read me a chapter in a restaurant, I thought nobody will want to read all this stuff. You see how wrong I was. It wasn't what I would call a scholarly account. I objected to it because of that...
Forty years ago this month, American James Watson and Briton Francis Crick made history when they unraveled the secret of the dna molecule, the genetic blueprint that determines whose eyes are brown, whose physique is round and who is most susceptible to such hereditary diseases as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. The partners, who won a Nobel Prize in 1962, don't get together much anymore, but last week they and a group of distinguished colleagues gathered on Long Island, New York, at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where Watson is now director, to celebrate the anniversary of their...