Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

- James D. Watson

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

- James D. Watson

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

- James D. Watson

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billio…

- James D. Watson

Never be the brightest person in the room.

- James D. Watson

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

- James D. Watson

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

- James D. Watson

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

- James D. Watson

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doc…

- James D. Watson