Ultimately, 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.
JAMES WATSONIf 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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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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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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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 American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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