Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
If you want to understand function, study structure.
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve. . . is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold. Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. . . . We could not see what the answer was, but we considered it so important that we were determined to think about it long and hard, from any relevant point of view.
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
Our. . . advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration. . . If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.
It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.
I guess I'm getting older. I hate to say it, but I guess I am.