James Dewey Watson - Structure Quotes

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We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.

James Dewey Watson

All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play. With luck, the structure would be a helix.

James Dewey Watson

We wish to put forward a radically different structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. This structure has two helical chains each coiled round the same axis (see diagram).

James Dewey Watson

This [double helix] structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.... It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

James Dewey Watson