Quotes from James D. Watson

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.

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

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

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

Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

Our goal should be to understand our differences.