The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

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

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

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.

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

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.