The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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