The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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 luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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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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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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