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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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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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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
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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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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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