At times the two cen­tral pro­tag­o­nists behaved like peo­ple whose day job was work­ing up skits for Monty Python.…they had dis­tinctly lack­adaisi­cal work habits. Wat­son played sev­eral sets of ten­nis every after­noon and spent his evenings alter­nately chas­ing ‘pop­sies’ at Cam­bridge par­ties and going to the movies. Crick, who rarely showed up at the lab before 10 AM and took a cof­fee break and hour later repeat­edly appeared to lose inter­est in the prob­lem of DNA. On more than one occa­sion, vital piece of infor­ma­tion were obtained not through hard work but as a result of chance con­ver­sa­tions in the tea line at the Cavendish laboratory.

A quote from Richard Ogle’s “Smart World”, on Wat­son and Crick’s dis­cov­ery of DNA’s struc­ture. Chas­ing pop­sies, heh.