The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer..

Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outsp….

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the ….

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

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

Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job,….

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. T….

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution hav….

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?.

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 ….

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and….

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong..

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with kno….

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have ev….

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

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..

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

If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other han….

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 i….

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast..

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..