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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

James Watson

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.
JAMES WATSON

Dreams Help People Play Success Trust
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSON

Collaboration Team Work
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSON

Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
I have been much blessed.
JAMES WATSON

Blessing Myself
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.
JAMES WATSON

Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSON

Feeling Interview People Yourself
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSON

Greatness Population Science Subject Way
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?
JAMES WATSON

Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON

Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
Science 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 WATSON

Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
JAMES WATSON

Genius Necessary Stupidity
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.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
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 WATSON

Achievement Break Destroy Scream
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSON

Equality Science Simplicity True
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSON

Physics Science Social Work
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
JAMES WATSON

Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value

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