Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
JAMES WATSONIf 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.
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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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I have been much blessed.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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