There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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 brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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