Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSONWhenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSONEver 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 WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONNothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSONIt’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSONIf 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 WATSONMoving 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.
JAMES WATSONYou’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
JAMES WATSONI have been much blessed.
JAMES WATSONThe 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.
JAMES WATSONAs an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
JAMES WATSONNo good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSONEvery time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONThere are many people of color who are very talented.
JAMES WATSONThere 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.
JAMES WATSONThere is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSON