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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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 ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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If we don't play God, who will?
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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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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 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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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.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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