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James Dewey Watson je americký biochemik.

V roku 1962 dostal Nobelovej ceny za fyziológiu alebo medicínu za objav molekulárnej štruktúry nukleových kyselín a ich významu pre prenos informácie dedičnosti v živej hmote. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. apríl 1928
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“There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.”

James D. Watson

As quoted in Lifelines http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/rose-lifelines.html (1997) by Steven Rose

“If we don't play God, who will?”

James D. Watson

The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities (1996)

“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.”

James D. Watson

As quoted in "Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer", by Shaoni Bhattacharya, New Scientist (28 February 2003) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3451#.VHpLJzGsWPY.

“Never be the brightest person in the room. … We're all imperfect.”

James D. Watson

James Watson: How we discovered DNA, TED talk (February 2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HgL5OFip-0

“The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.”

James D. Watson

1990s
Zdroj: Foreword for Discovering the Brain (1992) by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii; often paraphrased: "The brain is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."

“I find such a moralistic response to be profoundly immoral.”

James D. Watson

Coda: Our Genes and Our Future (p. 433)
Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017)

“The tendency is to focus on the worst-case scenario and to shy away from potentially controversial science; it is time, I think, we looked instead at the benefits.”

James D. Watson

Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 13, “Who We Are: Nature vs. Nurture” (p. 372)

“This remarkable feat merely reaffirms what most of us in molecular biology have long known to be the truth: the essence of life is complicated chemistry and nothing more.”

James D. Watson

Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 9, “Reading Genomes: Evolution in Action” (p. 242)

“Sure enough, the notion of decoding their personal DNA appealed to more than a few well-off individuals, even if it amounted to the scientific equivalent of purchasing a vanity license plate.”

James D. Watson

Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 8, “Personal Genetics: The First of the Rest of Us” (p. 205)