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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.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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