The Meaning Of This Observation Is Unclear,

When You Start In Science, You Are Brainwashed Into Believing How Careful You Must Be, And How Difficult It Is To Discover Things. There's Something That Might Be Called The 'graduate Student Syndrome'; Graduate Students Hardly Believe They Can Make A Discovery.

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.

You’re Nothing But A Pack Of Neurons.

In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually Lazy And Especially Dislike Reading Experimental Papers. He Seemed To Have Very Strong Biological Intuitions But Unfortunately Of Negative Sign.

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.