All James D. Watson Quotes
- I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be. Cancer
- I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it… Deciding
- My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good… Basically Trying
- Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have… Able
- 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 egg… Able
- The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer. Antioxidant
- DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush. Dna
- Genetically modified foods are good. Foods
- Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even… Bird
- My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a… All
- It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the… Accounted
- I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending… Attending
- I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so… Company
- I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for… Aware
- To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly. Africa