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.
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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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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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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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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