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James D. Watson
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James D. Watson
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 6
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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I am thrilled to see my genome.
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