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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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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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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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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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