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.
JAMES WATSONDNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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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.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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 brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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