I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe.

Rosalind Franklin

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Rosalind Franklin

British physical chemist born in 1920 whose X-ray image Photo 51 was essential to solving the DNA structure. Her contribution went long unrecognized; she died of cancer at thirty-seven.

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Source: Letter to her father Ellis Franklin, 1940Verified

Rosalind Franklin's Other Quotes

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.