There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSONI have been much blessed.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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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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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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