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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.
James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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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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Knowing why (an idea) is more important than learning what (the fact).
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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 am thrilled to see my genome.
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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.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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 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 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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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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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 scientists don't play God, who will?
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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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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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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 brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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