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 WATSONThe way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
More James Watson Quotes
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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?
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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[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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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