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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.

James Watson

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSON

Good Price Production Public Sick
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
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.
JAMES WATSON

Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSON

Collaboration Team Work
Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
JAMES WATSON

Courage Evolution Failure Heart Human Job Move Science Time
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.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
JAMES WATSON

Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
[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 WATSON

Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSON

Religion Time Understand
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
JAMES WATSON

Adventure Beautiful Character Science Simplicity Spirit Truth
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSON

Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSON

Improvement People Thinking Wrong
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSON

God One Liner Play Science
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
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSON

Equality Science Simplicity True
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSON

Physics Science Social Work

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