ME and Ophelia

FRANCIS CRICK, DNA PIONEER, DIES
Codiscovered the double helix

Great excerpt from Nick's post at Blogborygmi:

It is a matter of some irony that two immodest researchers wrote one of the most beautiful understatements in the history of science:

"This structure has novel features of considerable biological interest... It has not escaped our attention that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material."
-- Watson J. D., Crick F. H. (1953) Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 171: 737-738.