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.
JAMES WATSONThere 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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