There are many people of color who are very talented.
JAMES WATSONI 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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 of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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 biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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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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