The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSONTake young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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 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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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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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 American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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.
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