I have been much blessed.
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.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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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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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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One 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.
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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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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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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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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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