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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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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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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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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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I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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If we don't play God, who will?
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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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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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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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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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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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 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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