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.
JAMES WATSONMoving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
More James Watson Quotes
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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Racists 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.
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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