Rosalind Franklin Quotes
Rosalind Franklin’s legacy sparks debate, and four brief quotes reveal her exacting experimental skill and relentless drive despite illness. One quote says she wasn’t among the era’s top theorists; another praises the experiments that split carbon into graphite and diamond. See DNA discovery, women in science, X‑ray pages.
![“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…” quote by Francis Crick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf9/francis-crick-8439_average_i-think-she-rosalind-franklin-was-a-good_1215256.jpg)
![“Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.” quote by John Desmond Bernal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/92b/john-desmond-bernal-14871_devotion_her-rosalind-franklin-devotion-to-resear_1532826.jpg)
![“As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.” quote by John Desmond Bernal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eea/john-desmond-bernal-14871_beautiful_as-a-scientist-miss-rosalind-franklin-wa_2817403.jpg)