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James D. Watson

(1912–1978) Painter

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James D. Watson was a painter, best known for Molecular biology of the gene.

Quick Facts About James D. Watson

Born: November 30, 1912
Died: November 30, 1978
Profession: Painter
Notable works: Molecular biology of the gene

About James D. Watson

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by James D. Watson

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they…

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Around

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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…

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Competitiveness

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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…

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Cells

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You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!

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Forward

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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

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Always

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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…

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Billions

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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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Bounds

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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…

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Conception

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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume…

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Assume

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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

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Frontiers

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Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create…

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Determined

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I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

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About

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I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five…

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Away

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One-third of all female infertility is the result of blocked fallopian tubes. If fertilization could be done in the lab and then…

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Able

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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

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Book

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Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In…

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Able

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I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an…

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Animal

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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…

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Care

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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

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Good

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I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

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Born

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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with…

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Damage

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I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

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Cancer

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If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair…

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Accept

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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.

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Complicated

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If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's…

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Actually

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