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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

James Watson

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Big God Myself Understand
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
JAMES WATSON

Damage Justice Movie Race Replacement Science
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
JAMES WATSON

Dreams Education Ourselves Strive
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.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
JAMES WATSON

Genius Necessary Stupidity
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

Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
JAMES WATSON

Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
JAMES WATSON

Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
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
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Brain Discover Universe
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSON

Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
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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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
JAMES WATSON

Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
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
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSON

Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking

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