James D. Watson Quotes

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• At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.
• One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
• The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
• Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration
• 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…
• A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
• Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.
• 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…
• People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
• 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…
• 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…
• (The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
• The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
• [As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going…
• There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our…
• 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…
• I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
• Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is…
• It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
• 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…

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