"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

"I confess that I had harbored the feeling that sooner or later I would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although I was pleased with the double-helix, I 'rather wished the idea had been his'."

"I have never been afraid to be wrong."

"You can't just have a good idea. You have to have a lot of good ideas."

"I might well have become egotistical as a result [of the Langmuir Prize].... But... I think that I just said I shouldn't let this go to my head. I shouldn't think I'm really better than other people e…"