For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year
"It's true that in blundering about, we struck gold, but the fact remains we were looking for gold-asking the right question." - Francis Crick, on his collaboration with James Watson in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, key to the fundamental biochemistry of life
