A conjecture of Goldfeld implies that a positive proportion of quadratic twists of an elliptic curve E/Q has (analytic) rank 1. This assertion has been confirmed by Vatsal [V1] and the first author [By] for only two elliptic curves. Here we confirm this assertion for infinitely many elliptic curves E/Q using the Heegner divisors, the 3-part of the class groups of quadratic fields, and a variant of the binary Goldbach problem for polynomials.