The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.