Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONYou’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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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.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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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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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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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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.
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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 have been much blessed.
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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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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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