Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSONNever be the brightest person in the room.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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[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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