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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

James Watson

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
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

Dreams Help People Play Success Trust
No 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 WATSON

Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
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
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
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.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSON

Improvement People Thinking Wrong
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
JAMES WATSON

Genius Necessary Stupidity
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
JAMES WATSON

Dreams Education Ourselves Strive
I 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 WATSON

Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
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.
JAMES WATSON

Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSON

Religion Time Understand
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
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSON

Equality Science Simplicity True
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSON

Feeling Interview People Yourself

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