DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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