At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

– James D. Watson

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Remark made at The Eagle pub (28 Feb 1953), near Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, to celebrate the fact that they, Crick and Watson, had unravelled the structure of DNA.