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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 Watson

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

Collaboration Team Work
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSON

Employment Important Necessary Yourself
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSON

Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking
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
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSON

Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSON

God One Liner Play Science
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
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
JAMES WATSON

Damage Justice Movie Race Replacement Science
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSON

Dreams Life Myself Time
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Discover Fast Speed
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
JAMES WATSON

Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSON

Improvement People Thinking Wrong
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

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