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.
JAMES WATSONThere are many people of color who are very talented.
More James Watson Quotes
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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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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[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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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