James D. Watson Quotes

Scientific Progress goes boink?

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Change takes courage.

With innovation, there is always risk.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

This is the case with millions of people. They talk about love, they know all the poetries about love, but they have never loved. Or even if they thought they were in love, they were never in love. That too was a 'heady' thing, it was not of the heart. People live and go on missing life. It needs courage. It needs courage to be realistic, it needs courage to move with life wherever it leads, because the paths are uncharted, there exists no map. One has to go into the unknown.

There is no achievement without risk.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.