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James D. Watson
American
Scientist
About the author
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.
James D. Watson,
American
Scientist
#Today
#Evolution
#Fact
#Principles
#Theory
#Religious
#Minority
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.
James D. Watson,
American
Scientist
#Science
#Belief
#Pretty
#Spirit
#Truth
#Adventure
#Arrogance
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.
James D. Watson,
American
Scientist
#Successful
#Popular
#Scientists
#Newspapers
#Contrast
#Mothers
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,
American
Scientist
#Now
#People
#Years
#Reason
#Science
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
James D. Watson,
American
Scientist
#Years
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
James D. Watson,
American
Scientist
#Freedom
#Pressure
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
James D. Watson,
American
Scientist