I have been much blessed.
JAMES WATSONThe biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
More James Watson Quotes
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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.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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