You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
JAMES WATSONNothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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