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.
JAMES WATSONNo good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
More James Watson Quotes
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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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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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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.
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