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"I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?"
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!"
Quote by -James D. Watson
"On the other hand, the sun of Naples might be conducive to learning something about the biochemistry of the embryonic development of marine animals."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"One-third of all female infertility is the result of blocked fallopian tubes. If fertilization could be done in the lab and then the fertilized egg implanted in the womb, it would get around that problem. Millions of women who cannot have children would suddenly be able to."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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 actually have to deal with."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. —Memoirs of Emperor Xenovere I, page 286,"
Quote by -James Maxwell
"Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?"
Quote by -James Maxwell
"Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."
Quote by -James Maxwell
"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."
Quote by -James Maxwell