Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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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.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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I have been much blessed.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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