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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

James Watson

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
JAMES WATSON

Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
JAMES WATSON

Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
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.
JAMES WATSON

Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSON

Employment Important Necessary Yourself
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSON

Dreams Life Myself Time
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSON

Good Price Production Public Sick
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 pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Discover Fast Speed
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.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
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.
JAMES WATSON

Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
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.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
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.
JAMES WATSON

Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
JAMES WATSON

Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSON

Greatness Population Science Subject Way
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

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