James D. Watson

I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood.

The thought could not be avoided that the X-ray pictures of hemoglobin ... were very pretty.

Honest Jim: I have never been able to decide whether he is honest or not.

The race was still on. I was not too old to learn.

I was a good-looking young man at the time, at least so my mother told me.

I now knew that the structure of DNA was uniquely suited to carry genetic information.

I had an impression of the beauty of the double helix.

I was too young to have any deep appreciation of the camaraderie of the laboratory.

I was not the first to see the double helix.

I was twenty-five years old, a young man in a hurry.

I was acutely conscious of the importance of DNA.

I felt that I had been born at the right time and place.