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James Watson

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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Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
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
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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Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
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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Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Love Patience Yourself
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
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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Achievement Break Destroy Scream
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value
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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Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Physics Science Social Work
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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Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Good Price Production Public Sick
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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Believe Big God Myself Understand
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
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory

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