“And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God”. (Salvador Dali, 1964).
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Stent, G. Molecular biology and metaphysics. Nature 248, 779–781 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248779a0
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