Formula for breakthroughs in research: Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
Source: In Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, by James B. Simpson, 1988.
-- James D Watson, (Apr 6 1928-____), US biochemist; He established (with Crick) DNA's molecular structure which is the basis for heredity; awarded the Nobel Prize 1962.