I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
James D. Watson
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering... →
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 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... →
My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do... →
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the... →
'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With... →
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... →
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Bill Watterson
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving.... →
Reggie Watts