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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

James Watson

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSON

Good Price Production Public Sick
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.
JAMES WATSON

Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
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
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSON

Brain Discover Universe
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.
JAMES WATSON

Achievement Break Destroy Scream
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

Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Big God Myself Understand
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
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSON

Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSON

Physics Science Social Work
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.
JAMES WATSON

Courage Evolution Failure Heart Human Job Move Science Time
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
Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSON

Bright One Liner Person Room
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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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSON

Religion Time Understand
If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
JAMES WATSON

Dreams Help People Play Success Trust

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

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