If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

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?

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.