“If you could make people with ten-point-higher IQs, we'd probably have fewer wars.”
What I've Learned: James Watson (2007)
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“There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.”
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?”
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.”
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.
What I've Learned: James Watson (2007)
“Be sure you have someone up your sleeve who will save you when you find yourself in deep s—.”
Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of Thumb (1993)
"Risky Genetic Fantasies" in The Los Angeles Times (29 July 2001), p. M4
“Never be the brightest person in the room. … We're all imperfect.”
James Watson: How we discovered DNA, TED talk (February 2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HgL5OFip-0
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."
"All for the Good: Why genetic engineering must soldier on" TIME magazine, Vol. 153, No. 1 (11 January 1999)
1990s
“I find such a moralistic response to be profoundly immoral.”
Coda: Our Genes and Our Future (p. 433)
Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017)
Coda: Our Genes and Our Future (p. 432)
Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017)
Coda: Our Genes and Our Future (p. 430)
Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017)
Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 13, “Who We Are: Nature vs. Nurture” (p. 372)
Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 11, “Genetic Fingerprinting: DNA’s Day in Court” (p. 300)
Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 9, “Reading Genomes: Evolution in Action” (p. 242)
Zdroj: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017), Chapter 8, “Personal Genetics: The First of the Rest of Us” (p. 205)