Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was very average.

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. Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. ... We could not see what the answer was, but we considered it so important that we were determined to think about it long and hard, from any relevant point of view.

Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.