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.
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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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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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