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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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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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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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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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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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 never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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If we don't play God, who will?
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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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Knowing why (an idea) is more important than learning what (the fact).
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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.
James D. Watson
