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James Watson

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSON

Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSON

Brain Discover Universe
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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Believe Big God Myself Understand
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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Feeling Interview People Yourself
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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Achievement Break Destroy Scream
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Eliminate Gift Greatness Natural Science World
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Believe Discover Fast Speed
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
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
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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Complication Deal Reason Science Thinking
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
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
JAMES WATSON

Genius Necessary Stupidity

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