There are many people of color who are very talented.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
More James Watson Quotes
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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Moving 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.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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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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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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