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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

[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.
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Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
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.
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Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Greatness Population Science Subject Way
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.
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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Eliminate Gift Greatness Natural Science World
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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Direction Discrimination Help Leadership People Sympathy Try Understand
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room
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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Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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Feeling Interview People Yourself
I have been much blessed.
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Blessing Myself
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Physics Science Social Work
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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Competition Research Togetherness Virtual 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?
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Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
If 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.
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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time

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