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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

James Watson

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?
JAMES WATSON

Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Greatness Population Science Subject Way
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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Direction Discrimination Help Leadership People Sympathy Try Understand
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
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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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Genius Necessary Stupidity
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Employment Important Necessary Yourself
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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God One Liner Play Science
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Believe Discover Fast Speed
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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Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World

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