James Watson

The discovery of the structure of DNA was a turning point in human history.

The beauty of science is that it is constantly evolving.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The greatest adventure is to explore the unknown.

The more we learn about the universe, the more we realize how little we know.

The most important thing in life is to be happy.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

We used to think that our fate was in our stars, but now we know that, in large measure, our fate is in our genes.

Science that makes us better at killing is not good science.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

People who watch the sparrows obviously will not understand gene-environment interactions.

If we didn't have the genetic code, it would be a lot harder to do science.

Biology is now bigger than physics.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is now the threat of overpopulation.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it.

To those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africans are intellectually inferior to Europeans, I can only apologise.

Cancer is not a concentration camp, but it shares the quality of being a terrible and arbitrary trial.