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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.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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 think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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