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

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

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

If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case.

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.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.