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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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If scientists don't play God, who will?
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If we don't play God, who will?
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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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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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 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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Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.
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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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