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.
JAMES WATSONNo good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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 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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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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.
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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