There are many people of color who are very talented.
JAMES WATSONWhenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
More James Watson Quotes
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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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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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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