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James D. Watson Quotes

«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»
«Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.»
Author: James D. Watson | Keywords: biology
«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.»
«Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.»
«It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.»
«Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.»
«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.»
«I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.»
«Our goal is to preserve the past using 21st century technology.»