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 WATSONYou’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
More James Watson Quotes
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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 never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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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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