James Watson

I'm not a very good speaker.

I've always been interested in what makes people tick.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

I like to stir things up.

I'm an optimist about the future of humanity.

The greatest adventure is to explore the unknown.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being ambitious.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

I believe in the power of ideas.

We have discovered the secret of life!

I never met a dull woman.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

The only people who really believe in free will are novelists.

I don't see why I should be expected to respect people who don't respect me.

If you're really stupid, I would call that a disease.

All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

Some people say that I am a racist. I am not a racist. I don't see myself as a racist. I don't see myself as a sexist.