It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSONI never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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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.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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