Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSONNothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
More James Watson Quotes
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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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.
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