If scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSONDo things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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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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