James Watson

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a true order for a nominal order.

Avoid stupid people.

Science moves with the aid of new questions, and education could prepare for the world of tomorrow.

The future of humanity is going to hinge on whether we can control our own genes.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is.

The gene is the basic unit of selfishness.

Today, the theory of evolution is about as much part of biology as the roundness of the earth is of geography.

If you are really a selfish person, then you should want to help other people.

The human genome will tell us more about ourselves than we have ever imagined.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

We wish to find the structural basis for the message that is passed from generation to generation.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

The x-ray work of Franklin and Wilkins had shown that the molecule had the shape of a helix.

I was virus-oriented.

Precisely at this moment, the telephone rang.

The immediate source of energy for protein synthesis is ATP.

Evolution is no longer a hypothesis. It is a fact.

The brain is the last and greatest biological frontier.