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James Watson

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Religion Time Understand
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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Change Decision Mindset Need Time
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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Courage Evolution Failure Heart Human Job Move Science Time
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking
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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Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
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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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Love Patience Yourself
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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Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Employment Important Necessary Yourself
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
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.
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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology Gold Myself Rush Science

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