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James Watson
Discoverer of the DNA Molecule
James Watson: I guess I'm best known for just saying things the way I think they are under circumstances where you're not supposed to say it. You've got a fairly short life span and, particularly when you have students, you've got to let them know what you think. They shouldn't have a guessing game as to what you think, because you're really out there to try and educate them as to what reality is. So, if you have a bad seminar, you might as well tell the guy to his face. You shouldn't get up and say, "Wonderful talk," when it isn't.
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James Watson
Discoverer of the DNA Molecule
In the case of cystic fibrosis, if you have the gene, and you've got both copies bad, you're going to have the disease. You'll essentially know it soon after you're born. This knowledge, particularly the predictive part of it, should be tightly controlled and probably should only be obtained when you can do something with the knowledge. It shouldn't just be obtained because you want to see the future; it should be obtained because you want to make the future better.
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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
I wrote a book called From Chocolate to Morphine, which was a review of all drugs that can affect the mind. And there was an organized attempt, this was in the early 1980s, to ban the book. And a prominent senator from Florida stood up on the floor of the Senate and waved the book around and said that this was a very dangerous book, because it was neutral, that it didn't tell people to not use substances. And that's exactly what I aimed for; I wanted to put out neutral information. And I think that when you're working in situations that are very polarized, often neither side understands the middle position. You know, the position of neither advocating nor discouraging, of just trying to carve out a balanced path.
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Sanford Weill
Financier and Philanthropist
I think one of the greatest periods in my life is when I decided to leave American Express, because most people don't get to know what people really think about them when they're alive. And you know, you always wonder, "Are people friendly with you -- or people paying attention to you, they make believe they like you -- because of your position and what you can do for them?" And I think what was really great is that when I left I didn't have this position of power at American Express. And the first thing that was important about that was it helped my relationship with my children a lot, because they always looked at me as this person that could never do anything wrong, and therefore they couldn't contribute. And all of a sudden, they saw their father was vulnerable, and it helped create more of an equal kind of relationship with each other, where we respect each other a lot, and that was a very, very important thing that happened.
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