I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.” — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“[ When asked by a student if he believes in any gods ] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“People say we are playing God. My answer is: If we don't play God, who will?” — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was -… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found,… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young,… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail! — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
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