James D. Watson Quotes
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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?
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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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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
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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.
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.
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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 outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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 fostering competitiveness.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration
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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.
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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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 the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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.
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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 the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.
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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 mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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