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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.
More James Watson Quotes
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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I have been much blessed.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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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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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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