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Quotes from What I've Learned: James Watson — James D. Watson

1928–2025 United States

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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

What I've Learned: James Watson (2007)

For all my life, America was the place to be.

What I've Learned: James Watson (2007)

If you could make people with ten-point-higher IQs, we'd probably have fewer wars.

What I've Learned: James Watson (2007)

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

What I've Learned: James Watson (2007)

New ideas require new facts.
You explain things by way of ideas. Why do we have a government that is run by rich trash? Because they've used their money to buy the presidency. Bush is a tool for the people who don't want an inheritance tax.

What I've Learned: James Watson (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James D. Watson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.