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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.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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