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?
JAMES WATSONScience 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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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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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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.
JAMES WATSON