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JAMES WATSONI never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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I have been much blessed.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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