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James Watson

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Greatness Population Science Subject Way
Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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I have been much blessed.
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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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[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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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 pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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