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I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

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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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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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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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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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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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If scientists don't play God, who will?
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