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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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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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If we don't play God, who will?
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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If scientists don't play God, who will?
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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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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