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

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

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