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 WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
More James Watson Quotes
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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 most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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