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We had found the secret of life!

Francis Crick

On the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953.

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Crick, Frances. Quoted in The Double Helix, by James D. Watson. Atheneum Press/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968, ch. 26.

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They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence...they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 2.

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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

James Jeans

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Jeans, James. The Mysterious Universe. Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, 1930, ch. 1.

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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Francis Crick

Proposing the double helix as the structure of DNA.

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Crick, Francis and James D. Watson. "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid." Nature, 25 Apr. 1953.

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