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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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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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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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
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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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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Knowing why (an idea) is more important than learning what (the fact).
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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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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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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 never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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