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 pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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I have been much blessed.
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