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

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

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.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

If we don't play God, who will?

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.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.