An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule… — 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
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was -… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail! — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
