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If we 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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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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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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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.
James D. Watson
Knowing why (an idea) is more important than learning what (the fact).
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
James D. Watson
If scientists don't play God, who will?
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
James D. Watson
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.
James D. Watson
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.
James D. Watson
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?
James D. Watson
We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
James D. Watson
I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
James D. Watson
