The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSONThe 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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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 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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I have been much blessed.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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