Francis Crick

As Crick describes the process of luck and hard work that led to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, it is his personal virtues that resonate most notably as the determining factors of his success. He admits that as a novice scientist, his qualifications consisted of a “not-very-good degree” and limited knowledge in subjects that he was not particularly interested in, without even the auxiliary merit of any published papers (15). However, instead of deeming his lack of experience and dubitable credibility as obstacles, he transferred these ostensibly negative factors into vehicles for his success. He regaled in the fact that he was not “trapped by [his] own expertise...