All James D. Watson Quotes
- At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life. Biology
- One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural. Atheism
- The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand. Advantage
- Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration Collaboration
- The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions… Billions
- A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. Dull
- Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them. Bad
- No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't… Add
- People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great. All
- I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you… Anticipating
- Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority… Americans
- (The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity). Age
- The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer. Age
- [As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going… Bird
- There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our… Anticipate
- Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will… Achieved
- I wish there would be more movies about scientists. Inspirational
- Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is… Discriminate
- It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. Inspirational
- One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly… Conception
- Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. Biology
- Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. Competitiveness
- Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire… Accepted
- The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of… Advances
- If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to… Chance