To succeed in science, you have to avoid dumb people (here I was still following Luria's example). Now that might sound inexcusably flip, but the fact is that you must always turn to people who are brighter than yourself.
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.
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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
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense. Scientific American 288(4), p. 54
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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.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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J. D. Watson (24 Sept. 1993). Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of Thumb. Science 261: 1812-1813.
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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.
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