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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

James Watson

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
JAMES WATSON

Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
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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Change Decision Mindset Need Time
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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Achievement Break Destroy Scream
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
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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Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
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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Believe Big God Myself Understand
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Genius Necessary Stupidity
I have been much blessed.
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Blessing Myself
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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Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
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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Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
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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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
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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Complication Deal Reason Science Thinking
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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Adventure Beautiful Character Science Simplicity Spirit Truth
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Believe Discover Fast Speed
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong

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