Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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