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.
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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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 are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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For 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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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