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I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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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If scientists don't play God, who will?
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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 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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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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If we don't play God, who will?
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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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Knowing why (an idea) is more important than learning what (the fact).
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