Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.

Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, just as tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex, & seamless sounds of a symphony orchestra

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.