James D. Watson Giving Quotations

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.