American - Scientist | April 6, 1928 -
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
James D. Watson
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My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.
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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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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 they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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 actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
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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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Genetically modified foods are good.
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