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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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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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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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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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
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