In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

- Rosalind Franklin

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the im…

- Rosalind Franklin

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic …

- Rosalind Franklin

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 ra…

- Rosalind Franklin

The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit …

- Rosalind Franklin

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

- Rosalind Franklin

Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available…

- Rosalind Franklin

You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiou…

- Rosalind Franklin

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

- Rosalind Franklin