Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONNever be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONNo 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?
JAMES WATSONWhenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSONScience 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 WATSONScience 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 WATSONNo good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSONOne of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
JAMES WATSONI never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSONSome think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSONI turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
JAMES WATSONRacists 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.
JAMES WATSONOur goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONThe biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSONThere are many people of color who are very talented.
JAMES WATSON