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 WATSONYou’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
More James Watson Quotes
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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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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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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