I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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 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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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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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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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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I have been much blessed.
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