As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
More James Watson Quotes
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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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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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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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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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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