Frases de James Dewey Watson
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James Dewey Watson é um biólogo molecular, geneticista e zoologista americano.

É um dos autores do "modelo de dupla hélice" para a estrutura da molécula de DNA. Pelo trabalho publicado em 1953 na revista Nature Watson foi laureado com o Nobel de Fisiologia ou Medicina de 1962, juntamente com Francis Crick e Maurice Wilkins. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Abril 1928
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James Dewey Watson frases e citações

“Como a mente funciona ainda é um mistério. Nós entendemos o hardware, mas não temos a menor idéia sobre o sistema operacional.”

How the mind works, for example, is still a mystery. We understand the hardware, but we don't have a clue about the operating system
citado em "Creation Research Society quarterly", Volume 41 http://books.google.com/books?id=iMnYAAAAMAAJ, Edições 1-4‎ - Página 49, 2004

“Só serei feliz quando descobrirmos uma cura para o câncer”

James Dewey Watson, vencedor do Nobel de Medicina em 1962 pela descoberta da dupla hélice do DNA em entrevista para a agência EFE
Fonte: Revista ISTO É, Edição n. 1779.

James Dewey Watson: Frases em inglês

“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.

“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

“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.”

1990s
Fonte: 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.”

Coda: Our Genes and Our Future (p. 433)
Fonte: 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.”

Fonte: 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.”

Fonte: 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.”

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