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.

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

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

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.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.