“Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.”

As quoted in "Nobel Winner's Theories Raise Uproar in Berkeley", by Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle (13 November 2000) http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Nobel-Winner-s-Theories-Raise-Uproar-in-Berkeley-3236584.php

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American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. 1928

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