Wise words from Rosalind Franklin

It's never really easy to avoid clichés in situations like this. But I'll try my best and draw on a combination of my past (as a PhD student), my present (as the unit's Scientific Integrity Coordinator), and the history of science.

« While the X-ray evidence cannot, at present, be taken as direct proof that the structure is helical, other considerations make the existence of a helical structure highly probable”.

I mention this because, having done my PhD at King's College London, Rosalind Franklin is always around (notably in several posters at the entrance to the building where I worked) and also represents the place of women in science, hidden (by men) since ancient times. Then, as a Scientific Integrity-sensitive scientist, I really like this quote.