Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
JAMES WATSONScience has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
More James Watson Quotes
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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[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.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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No 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?
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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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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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.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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