James D. Watson Quotes

I'm a genius.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Cloning isn’t all that unusual. For thousands of years we have been cloning plants.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

Most geniuses are weird.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

There are many talented people.