The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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