In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually

Anybody Who Believes That The Earth Is Less Than 10,000 Years Old Needs Psychiatric Help.

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.

If Watson And I Had Not Discovered The [dna] Structure, Instead Of Being Revealed With A Flourish It Would Have Trickled Out And That Its Impact Would Have Been Far Less. For This Sort Of Reason Stent Had Argued That A Scientific Discovery Is More Akin To A Work Of Art Than Is Generally Admitted. Style, He Argues, Is As Important As Content. I Am Not Completely Convinced By This Argument, At Least In This Case.

Protein Synthesis Is A Central Problem For The Whole Of Biology, And That It Is In All Probability Closely Related To Gene Action.

An Honest Man, Armed With All The Knowledge Available To Us Now, Could Only State That In Some Sense, The Origin Of Life Appears At The Moment To Be Almost A Miracle, So Many Are The Conditions Which Would Have Had To Have Been Satisfied To Get It Going.