Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSONThe American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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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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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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