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.
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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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 brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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