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 WATSONThe 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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For 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.
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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.
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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.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Racists 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.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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