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.
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.
More James Watson Quotes
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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 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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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