James D. Watson quotes

If we don't play God, who will? (James D. Watson)
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work. View quote
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If you could make people with ten-point-higher IQs, we'd probably have fewer wars. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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Never be the brightest person in the room. View quote
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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. View quote
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great. View quote
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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. View quote
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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind. View quote
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. (James D. Watson)
Our goal should be to understand our differences. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them. View quote
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. View quote
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If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous. View quote
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I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense. View quote
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To make a huge success, a scientist must be prepared to get into deep trouble. View quote
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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. View quote
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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either. (James D. Watson)
Prism: But how would society react to such a proposal? View quote
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No one really wants to admit I exist. View quote
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Be sure you have someone up your sleeve who will save you when you find yourself in deep s-. View quote
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I find such a moralistic response to be profoundly immoral. View quote
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