Our goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSONUltimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
More James Watson Quotes
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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