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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More James Watson Quotes
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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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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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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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.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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