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 WATSONNo 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?
More James Watson Quotes
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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