You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
JAMES WATSONFor 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.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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