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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

James Watson

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON

Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
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.
JAMES WATSON

Achievement Break Destroy Scream
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.
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Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Good Price Production Public Sick
I have been much blessed.
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Blessing Myself
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Physics Science Social Work
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Greatness Population Science Subject Way
Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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Courage Evolution Failure Heart Human Job Move Science Time
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
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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Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
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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Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
JAMES WATSON

Love Patience Yourself

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