"No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?"

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Source : "Risky Genetic Fantasies". The Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2001.

James D. Watson

#Knowing Quotes #Add Quotes #May Quotes

“Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?”
“One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.”
“We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.”
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
“An open mind is the secret in making friends.”
“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.”
“This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.”

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