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James Watson

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSON

Good Price Production Public Sick
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value
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.
JAMES WATSON

Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON

Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
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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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
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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Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSON

Equality Science Simplicity True
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?
JAMES WATSON

Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
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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Direction Discrimination Help Leadership People Sympathy Try Understand
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSON

Employment Important Necessary Yourself
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Believe Discover Fast Speed
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman

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