People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSONPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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I have been much blessed.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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 never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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