No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSONRacists 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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I have been much blessed.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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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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