The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSONWhenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
More James Watson Quotes
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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 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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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