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.
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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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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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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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