Best quotes by James D. Watson on People

Checkout quotes by James D. Watson on People

• ‟ 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 a sympathy for the underdog.

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• ‟ Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

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• ‟ I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.

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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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• ‟ There are many people of color who are very talented.

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• ‟ Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

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• ‟ It's so difficult writing about living people.

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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 discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.

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