No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the sun of Naples might be conducive to learning something about the biochemistry of the embryonic development of… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant… — James D. Watson Copy Share
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. — James D. Watson Copy Share
Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious… — James D. Watson Copy Share
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail! — James D. Watson Copy Share
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all. — James D. Watson Copy Share
The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of… — James D. Watson Copy Share
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong. — James D. Watson Copy Share
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a… — James D. Watson Copy Share
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would… — James D. Watson Copy Share
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers. — James D. Watson Copy Share
Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life… — James D. Watson Copy Share
I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you… — James D. Watson Copy Share
One-third of all female infertility is the result of blocked fallopian tubes. If fertilization could be done in the lab and then the fertilized… — James D. Watson Copy Share
