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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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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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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 am thrilled to see my genome.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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