Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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