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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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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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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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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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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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