James D. Watson

Quotes

• “My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to l...”
• “Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our me...”
• “I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great...”
• “My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure w...”
• “If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that...”
• “Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks hav...”
• “It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted sat...”
• “Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are base...”
• “[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped...”
• “Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to...”
• “Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth,...”
• “Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up...”
• “My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving ...”
• “We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.”
• “I wish there would be more movies about scientists.”