Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONNever be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONIf 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 WATSONI have been much blessed.
JAMES WATSONScience 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.
JAMES WATSONThe 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.
JAMES WATSONThere are many people of color who are very talented.
JAMES WATSONNothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSONThe way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSONOur goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSONNo good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSONThere is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSONIf scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSONToday, 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.
JAMES WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONDNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSONNo 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