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Rosalind Franklin

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Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
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in answer to her father, who accused her of making science her religion, as related by Brenda Maddox (2003). Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA?. Perennial. p. 61. ISBN 0060985089. 

 
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