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More pithily, Watson also once said this:

"Many scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just
stupid."

Just to put things in perspective,
Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
The Children's Museum

"If everyone is thinking alike, no one is thinking."
         -Bill Walton

-----Original Message-----
> Did anyone else pick up on this quote from James Watson in yesterday's

> New York Times? [Context was the opening of the Wellcome Collection in

> London.] I can't decide whether it's scary, or not important, or just 
> might potentially be useful in attracting funding.
> Carolyn
>
> ....
>
>> Now 79, Dr. Watson spoke optimistically of progress being made in 
>> discoveries into genetic ailments, but he also waxed poetic about the

>> new Wellcome Collection.
>>
>> "We have a large number of fine art museums," he told reporters. "We 
>> don't have the equivalent number of science museums, so 
>> congratulations. The United States is a disgrace. There is not a 
>> first-rate science museum in the whole country. Let's hope that what 
>> you do here inspires us in the United States."
>>
>> He had some suggestions. "Why hasn't Bill Gates built a science 
>> museum?" he asked. "Or Warren Buffett? I wouldn't have given my money

>> to Bill Gates. I'd have built a science museum."
>
> ....
>
> Here's the url of the full article -- (requires registration) --
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/arts/design/21well.html?adxnnl=1&pagew
anted=all&adxnnlx=1182542435-u80FlCPvRIX7X9NRdJlxIw 
>
>

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