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 WATSONThere 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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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.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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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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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