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If scientists don't play God, who will?
James D. Watson
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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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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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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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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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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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If we don't play God, who will?
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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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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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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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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.
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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