James D. Watson Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I wanted to see if I could write a good book.”

“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've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.”

“I am thrilled to see my genome.”

“It's certainly in dreams of people, you know, that they do something big. Most of the time they keep it secret because, you know, it's more realistic, and often then you get braggarts who tell you, you know, they're doing something great, and you don't believe them. But nonetheless, you know, in some sort of quiet way, you should have big dreams.”

“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.”

“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 University of Chicago where I actually saw things.”