Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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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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I have been much blessed.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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