Attempt Quote by James D. Watson

“When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for anything unusual,…

— Jeremy Narby

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

— Lewis Thomas

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted…

— Ahmet Zappa

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I…

— Sydney Brenner

“Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we were nothing but gene…

— Haruki Murakami

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps…

— James D. Watson

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

— Cynthia Kenyon

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite…

— Charles Jencks

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how…

— Paul Berg

In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.

— Bruce Beutler

It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we…

— Scott Gottlieb

“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.”

— Chip Walter