Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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
-
-
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON -
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
JAMES WATSON -
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSON -
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.
JAMES WATSON -
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
JAMES WATSON -
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
JAMES WATSON -
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSON -
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.
JAMES WATSON -
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.
JAMES WATSON -
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
JAMES WATSON -
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSON -
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSON -
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSON -
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSON -
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.
JAMES WATSON






