Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONBiology has at least 50 more interesting years.
More James Watson Quotes
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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 has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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 brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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 only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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