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Only Quotes by James D. Watson
- A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
- 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…
- 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…
- You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
- Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had…
- I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of…
- DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
- My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a…
- I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending…
- To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.
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