"Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong. The world progr…"

"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'."

"If there were nobody in the world but politicians, I would feel that there was no hope for mankind, no hope for civilization, no hope for the world."

"The greatest discoveries are often made by individuals who are not afraid to challenge the existing paradigms."

"The structure of DNA is a beautiful thing."