Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
More James Watson Quotes
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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 brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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.
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