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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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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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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 has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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