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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 never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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Knowing why (an idea) is more important than learning what (the fact).
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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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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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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If scientists don't play God, who will?
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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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 National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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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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