My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.
Genetically modified foods are good.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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.
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.
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!
'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try.
I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the U...
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll a...
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
There are many people of color who are very talented.
I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.
A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will ...
I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.
