Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONIf scientists don’t play God, who will?
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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[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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