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.
JAMES WATSONPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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