The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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
-
-
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSON -
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
JAMES WATSON -
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.
JAMES WATSON -
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.
JAMES WATSON -
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSON -
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
JAMES WATSON -
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
JAMES WATSON -
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
JAMES WATSON -
There 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.
JAMES WATSON -
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSON -
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSON -
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSON -
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 -
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.
JAMES WATSON -
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSON