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I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose. But I'm anticipating a good lunch.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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If we 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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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