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"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception."
Quote by -Leo Tolstoy
"Although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"People say we are playing God. My answer is: If we don't play God, who will?"
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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 half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"[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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so to judge him."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So early on, I heard of Charles Darwin. I guess, you know, he was the big hero. And, you know, you understand life as it now exists through evolution."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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 a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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."
Quote by -James D. Watson
"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 the human genome."
Quote by -James D. Watson