I have been much blessed.
JAMES WATSONThe biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
More James Watson Quotes
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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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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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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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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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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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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