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.
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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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