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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.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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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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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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose. But I'm anticipating a good lunch.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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