I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSONNothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
More James Watson Quotes
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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.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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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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