Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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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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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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