Quotes About James D. Watson

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.

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 better.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

I am thrilled to see my genome.

I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.