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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

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.
JAMES WATSON

Direction Discrimination Help Leadership People Sympathy Try Understand
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.
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Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
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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Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
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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Change Decision Mindset Need Time
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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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Greatness Population Science Subject Way
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Goodness Mindset Stupidity
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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Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Eliminate Gift Greatness Natural Science World
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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Believe Big God Myself Understand
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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Achievement Break Destroy Scream
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
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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Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
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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Dreams Help People Play Success Trust

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