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James D. Watson on Life

1928–2025 United States

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This remarkable feat merely reaffirms what most of us in molecular biology have long known to be the truth: the essence of life is complicated chemistry and nothing more.

DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003)

Life, we now know, is nothing but a vast array of coordinated chemical reactions. The “secret” to that coordination is the breathtakingly complex set of instructions inscribed—again, chemically—in our DNA.

DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003)

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