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Old 06-October-2005, 02:58 AM
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OK, another one. You listed....

We have discovered the secret of life!
-Francis Crick, spoken after excitedly bursting into a Cambridge pub with James Watson to celebrate the fact that they had unraveled the structure of DNA

....to which I add....

"According to Max Delbruck, one of the founders of molecular biology, the greatest surprise for everyone was that 'the whole business [of DNA structure] was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life Magazine, so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on... there was so simple a trick behind it." -- Howard Kaye
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