Here's my favourite understated claim in a paper: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible c

Here's my favourite understated claim in a paper: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material". Watson & Crick, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" (DNA), having almost certainly discovered the mechanism of heredity in complex life forms: one of the most significant discoveries in the history of biology. Very dry.