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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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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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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.
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Knowing why (an idea) is more important than learning what (the fact).
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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