One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
JAMES WATSON- 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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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSONI never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSONScience has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSONOur goal should be to understand our differences.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
JAMES WATSONBiology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSONThe pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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.
JAMES WATSONScience 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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSONIf scientists don’t play God, who will?
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSONIt’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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 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.
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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.
JAMES WATSONI 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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSONThere is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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.
JAMES WATSONI 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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSONWe’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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 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?
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSONThe way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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