James D. Watson Quotes

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

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

I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

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

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.

Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

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

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

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 have been much blessed.

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

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