The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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I have been much blessed.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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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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