Double Helix Quotes

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. 5

We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this planet is coded in a double helix with a sugar phosphate backbone. And that codes whether you become a bacteria, an orange, a lemon, a Lemur, a Cow, a sheep, a human being, a politician, any one of these things is all coded in this four-letter code.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

The strands of the DNA double helix are held together by hydrogen bonding interactions between the complementary base pairs. Heating DNA in solution easily breaks these hydrogen bonds, allowing the two strands to separate - a process called denaturation or melting.

We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953.

DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.