James D. Watson Quotes

People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I'm very interested in science.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

I'm a science goober.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.