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I am thrilled to see my genome.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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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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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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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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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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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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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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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