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> The structure of DNA was seen in a vision in James Watson's dream I believe this is apocryphal. Watson likely said this because he stole Rosalind Franklin's
by y33t 2y ago
> The structure of DNA was seen in a vision in James Watson's dream
I believe this is apocryphal. Watson likely said this because he stole Rosalind Franklin's research.
- bloomingkales 2y agoI can only think of that example because it’s the only one I know of where the scientist admitted to something divine. This is probably something I need to research more, because the questions scientists are dealing with are too deep to ignore the one big question, and I wonder who struggled with it.
- selimthegrim 2y agoKekulé?
- Philpax 2y agoRamanujan is another great example of divine inspiration.
- hcs 2y agoNot divine specifically but I like the Wikipedia List of Dreams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_based_on_dreams#Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_based_on_dreams#...
- cma 2y agoNewton and Kepler attributed lots to god. Kary Mullis to LSD supposedly.
- btilly 2y agoI disagree. What he stole was the pictures she took. He really did come up with the structure. Mind you he was helped by a nice coincidence. Franklin knew all 230 space symmetry groups, and so had to sort through them. Watson only really knew one - his PhD thesis was on a protein with the same group as DNA.