Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick. What Mad Pursuit (1988)
Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. What Mad Pursuit (1988)
The job of theorists, especially in biology, is to suggest new experiments. A good theory makes not only predictions, but surprising predictions that then turn out to be true. (If its predictions appear obvious to experimentalists, why would they need a theory?) What Mad Pursuit (1988)