Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact). - James D. Watson
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
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration
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
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…
A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either. - James D. Watson
A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
Never be the brightest person in the room. - James D. Watson
Never be the brightest person in the room.
We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science. - James D. Watson
We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work. - James D. Watson
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. - James D. Watson
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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
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…
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