It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSONIf I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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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 I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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I have been much blessed.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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