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...that life is wildly beautiful as far as the eye can see. But it took the geniuses of our time to reveal how beautifully ordered life is deep down where we can't see it at all--in the molecular workshop where we become who we are. James Watson and Francis Crick did not discover the existence of DNA; they discovered its structure, which means they unveiled its power as well as its beauty. If you could uncoil a strip of DNA, it would reach 6 ft. in length, a code book written in words of four chemical letters...
...molecule is so beautiful," Watson once observed in a chat with TIME. "Its glory was reflected on Francis and me," and the two scientists have spent their lives since then trying to live up to its standards. They marveled that something so vital could be so simple and such a surprise. When they toasted their discovery in a pub one February night 50 years ago, Watson and Crick had no idea that not only biology but also the drugs we take and the machines we build, the food we eat and the choices we face when we decide to have...
...position [Dean of Coeducation] could have even more influence over women’s lives, and the search process should reflect a deeper consideration about what the post really means and how it could be more effective,” said Rebeccah G. Watson ’04, vice-president of Radcliffe Union of Students...
...Watson says she now feels Lewis made the “right decision” with his appointment of Fox and feels confident that the committee is the right avenue for restructuring sexual assault resources within the administration...
...Today, there?s a questionable sense of modesty when Watson explains how he and Crick, a dropout physicist, managed to beat the world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling to the double helix. Watson said that it was really a simple problem: ?If it were complicated, I wouldn?t have gotten it.? He refused to retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared...