black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

James Watson

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSON

Brain Discover Universe
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.
JAMES WATSON

Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSON

Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Big God Myself Understand
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
JAMES WATSON

Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSON

Religion Time Understand
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSON

Physics Science Social Work
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.
JAMES WATSON

Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSON

Feeling Interview People Yourself
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 WATSON

Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
JAMES WATSON

Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
JAMES WATSON

Goodness Mindset Stupidity
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSON

Improvement People Thinking Wrong
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 WATSON

Adventure Beautiful Character Science Simplicity Spirit Truth
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
JAMES WATSON

Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Watson Quotes