The first thing I noticed about Kary Mullis’s article about the discovery of PCR was his great storytelling. I think the intersection between science and the arts is important, especially for communicating science to the general public, and his portrayal of how he came up with the discovery was engaging to read. This also puts into perspective how accessible molecular biology, along with other scientific fields, can be. Scientists truly are real people, and those real people can also come up with amazing inventions and techniques that change the world. While he may not have been completely sober when devising a plan for PCR, Mullis was able to create this innovative technique while doing something as mundane as driving down a highway. It also shows that you can come up with amazing things as long as you have the right knowledge, and you may not need any fancy tools or machines to help you with the idea creation aspect. It also puts into perspective how science can be very humanistic, in the sense that it can bring people together because although science often seems very concrete, we are still all just humans trying to interpret our surroundings and understand why things are the way they are.
