James Watson

We must kill the cancer cells as selectively as we can.

Nobel laureates are really just people who have had a good idea at the right time.

The structure of DNA is like a twisted ladder.

I suspect there are too many people praising science as a source of blessed understanding and progress.

Genes are selfish in the sense that they want to propagate themselves.

The war on cancer has been a failure because we don't know what cancer is.

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

But rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming - WOW - what a ride!

Science is not a sacred scripture.

Intelligence is not determined by race, but by opportunity.

The double helix is the key to life.

We scientists are taught to doubt.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science is not 'Eureka' but 'That's funny'.

Biology has finally come of age.

Personal ambition is the greatest obstacle to real science.

The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long the field of those who little are qualified to cultivate it with honour.

I am not interested in rumors.

The genetic code is nearly universal.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Heredity is nothing but the continuity of the germ plasm.