Dna Quote by Sam Kean

[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and…

— Linus Pauling

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of…

— Anonymous

“Paul closed his eyes and turned his face to the sun. In spite of everything, it was hard not to take solace from the…

— Greg Egan

I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

— Regis Philbin

After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.

— Wolfgang Pauli

I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

— Regis Philbin

Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

— Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

“You couldn’t just tell an octillion atoms to drop whatever they were doing, rearrange themselves into a completely new configuration and do some scouting…

— Jester Bobbity

“Ok if they had a problem their system of parties basically took polarised positions about it, and if you look at them like they…

— Steve Merrick

In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write…

— Anonymous

“We're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much, and when…

— Walter Kirn