Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSONFor all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
JAMES WATSON