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.
JAMES WATSONThe 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.
JAMES WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONOur goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSONOne 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 WATSONThe biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSONEver 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.
JAMES WATSONNothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSONI 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.
JAMES WATSONWe’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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.
JAMES WATSONDo 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 WATSONEvery time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONIf scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSONDNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSONIf 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.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSON