Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
More James Watson Quotes
-
-
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
JAMES WATSON -
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSON -
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
JAMES WATSON -
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSON -
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
JAMES WATSON -
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSON -
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
JAMES WATSON -
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.
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 -
I have been much blessed.
JAMES WATSON -
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSON -
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?
JAMES WATSON -
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSON -
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSON -
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSON