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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.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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 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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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 scientists don't play God, who will?
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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 am thrilled to see my genome.
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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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If we don't play God, who will?
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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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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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