James D. Watson Quotes

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...

Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacter...

My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him un...

You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevai...

I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of hi...

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals wh...

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the be...

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that support...

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose...

It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibl...

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terrib...

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of...

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and env...

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated ...

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel ...

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; g...