James Watson

We should not be afraid to discuss the genetic basis of human behavior.

The future of medicine lies in personalized genomics.

The biggest challenge for science is to understand consciousness.

I believe that we will eventually be able to extend human lifespan indefinitely.

The idea of human perfectibility is not a utopian dream, but a scientific goal.

We have discovered the secret of life!

The double helix structure of DNA is too pretty not to be true.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood.

The molecule that is the basis for heredity, DNA, is the most golden of all molecules.

If you are going to do something important, you must have a certain arrogance to believe that you can make a difference.

The greatest thing in life is to be remembered.

The human brain is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

The only thing that can save the world is the intelligence of people. Not their emotions.

I think we should study people to make them happier, not just to understand them.

We used to think our fate was in the stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes.

The future is not in the stars but in our genes.

Science is not a democracy. It's a hierarchy of ideas.

The race to the double helix was a race for the greatest prize in biology.