"Well, I thought, that's nice of the old guy to say that, but I'm a little skeptical myself. And as the years went by, I thought, I don't do the sort of work for which Nobel Prizes are given."

"I believe that the human race has the ability to solve all of its problems, if we only work together."

"I'm just a simple chemist."

"The structure of DNA is a beautiful thing."

"A good scientist thinks logically and accurately when conditions call for logical and accurate thinking—but so does any other good worker when he has a sufficient number of well-founded facts to serve…"