We had found the secret of life! — Francis Crick · Skopia

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We had found the secret of life!

1968

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On the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953.

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Crick, Frances. Quoted in The Double Helix, by James D. Watson. Atheneum Press/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968, ch. 26.

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