Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Ultimately, 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.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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