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.
JAMES WATSON[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
More James Watson Quotes
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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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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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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