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Tag: Evolution
What Mad Pursuit – Francis Crick 1916-2004
But to convey my own feelings, I cannot do better than quote…the painter John Minton in which he said of his own artistic creations, “The important thing is to be there when the picture is painted.”
Francis Crick, on his discovery of DNA structure
On this day eight years ago, the possibly most creative biologist of the twentieth century died in San Diego, California. He was one of the greatest scientists of of all time, along with Einstein,
Richard Feynman 1918-1988 – The Value of Art
On this day, February 15, Richard Feynman died in Los Angeles, in 1988. He was of course the Nobel physicist (1965) who was well known for his idiosyncrasies. One of them was that he played the Bongo drum (professionally), and furthermore, from repairing radios to picking locks… to painting and poetry he did it all. So on this day, I will print a poem from one of his lectures, The Value of Science: