50+ James Watson Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
JAMES WATSON

Collaboration Team Work
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
JAMES WATSON

Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
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.
JAMES WATSON

Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
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.
JAMES WATSON

Adventure Beautiful Character Science Simplicity Spirit Truth
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSON

Physics Science Social Work
Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
JAMES WATSON

Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
JAMES WATSON

Love Patience Yourself
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
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSON

Greatness Population Science Subject Way
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSON

Improvement People Thinking Wrong
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Discover Fast Speed
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?
JAMES WATSON

Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
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.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSON

Feeling Interview People Yourself
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSON

Complication Deal Reason Science Thinking
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON

Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
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.
JAMES WATSON

Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
JAMES WATSON

Dreams Help People Play Success Trust
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSON

Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
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.
JAMES WATSON

Change Decision Mindset Need Time
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSON

Believe Big God Myself Understand
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 WATSON

Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
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.
JAMES WATSON

Direction Discrimination Help Leadership People Sympathy Try Understand
Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSON

Bright One Liner Person Room
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSON

Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking

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