DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSONUltimately, 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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.
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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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