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.
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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There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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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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