James D. Watson Opportunity Quotations

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

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.

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.