black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSON

Collaboration Team Work
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON

Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSON

Improvement People Thinking Wrong
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
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 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
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.
JAMES WATSON

Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSON

Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
JAMES WATSON

Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
[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
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 way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSON

Greatness Population Science Subject Way
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSON

Physics Science Social Work
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
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
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSON

Brain Discover Universe

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Watson Quotes