As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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 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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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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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