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

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

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. 5

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

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

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration