A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
JAMES WATSONAlready for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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