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.
JAMES WATSONEvery time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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 last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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