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...Secret of Life James D. Watson wrote a very personal piece about the death of his colleague Francis Crick [Aug. 9]. In a cover story 33 years ago, TIME described their exhilaration and the impact of their breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA [April...
...Wildly excited, two men dashed out of a side door of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory ... and ducked into the Eagle, a pub where generations of Cambridge scientists have met to gossip about experiments and celebrate triumphs. Over drinks, James D. Watson, then 24, and Francis Crick, 36, talked excitedly, Crick's booming voice damping out conversations among other Eagle patrons. When friends stopped to ask what the commotion was all about, Crick did not mince words. 'We,' he announced exultantly, 'have discovered the secret of life!' Brave words?and in a sense, incredibly true ... On that late winter...
Only James Watson could turn the eulogy of a friend into an excuse to denigrate religion [Aug. 9]. Francis Crick's "good-natured arrogance," as Watson called it, is nothing compared with Watson's opulent truculence. Watson referred to Crick's longtime hostility to religious revelation and said his colleague viewed religion as "perpetuating mistakes from the past." Watson wrote that Crick preferred to rely on observation and experimentation. But any conclusion about the nature of truth that relies solely on observation and experimentation cannot be a valid statement if it is based on those two principles alone. C. DONALD...
...Watson and Crick deserve a lot of credit for their discovery of DNA's structure. There is a vast difference, however, between its original inspired design and its discovery by humans. GIDEON THOM George, South Africa
These accessories matter more on long-distance trips, which older riders, with lots of leisure time, take more than younger ones. Watson reports that Harley owners between 45 and 54 average 6,290 road miles a year and those 55 to 64 rack up 6,240, while the 35-to-44 group logs 5,380 and 25-to-34-year-olds average...