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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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 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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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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