One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
JAMES WATSONOne of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
JAMES WATSONScience seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
JAMES WATSONThere is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSONI never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSONThe 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.
JAMES WATSONThe way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSONEvery time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONA clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
JAMES WATSONNever be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONRacists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
JAMES WATSONNo 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 WATSONDNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSONAs an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
JAMES WATSONI think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSONFor 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.
JAMES WATSONToday, 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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