James D. Watson Quotes

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

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

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.

Science has a human origin and a human destination.

We are a society now that is 100 percent dependent on science.

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.