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

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

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.

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, 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.