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The Dangerous Man Is The One Who Has Only One Idea, Because Then He'll Fight And Die For It.

Haemoglobin Is A Very Large Molecule By Ordinary Standards, Containing About Ten Thousand Atoms, But The Chances Are That Your Haemoglobin And Mine Are Identical, And Significantly Different From That Of A Pig Or Horse. You May Be Impressed By How Much Human Beings Differ From One Another, But If You Were To Look Into The Fine Details Of The Molecules Of Which They Are Constructed, You Would Be Astonished By Their Similarity.

My Own Prejudices Are Exactly The Opposite Of The Functionalists': "if You Want To Understand Function, Study Structure".

The Major Credit I Think Jim And I Deserve ... Is For Selecting The Right Problem And Sticking To It. It's True That By Blundering About We Stumbled On Gold, But The Fact Remains That We Were Looking For Gold. Both Of Us Had Decided, Quite Independently Of Each Other, That The Central Problem In Molecular Biology Was The Chemical Structure Of The Gene. ... We Could Not See What The Answer Was, But We Considered It So Important That We Were Determined To Think About It Long And Hard, From Any Relevant Point Of View.

I Think She [rosalind Franklin] Was A Good Experimentalist But Certainly Not Of The First Rank. She Was Simply Not In The Same Class As Eigen Or Bragg Or Pauling, Nor Was She As Good As Dorothy Hodgkin. She Did Not Even Select Dna To Study. It Was Given To Her. Her Theoretical Crystallography Was Very Average.