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.
JAMES WATSONToday, 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.
JAMES WATSONThe 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.
JAMES WATSONDo things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
JAMES WATSONFor 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.
JAMES WATSONIf 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 WATSONPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSONYou’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
JAMES WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONA clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
JAMES WATSONIf 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 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 WATSONOne of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
JAMES WATSONI think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSONNo good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON[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.
JAMES WATSONWhenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSON