Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSONOur goal should be to understand our differences.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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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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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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