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.
JAMES WATSONA goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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