“Never be the brightest person in the room. … We're all imperfect.”

—  James D. Watson

James Watson: How we discovered DNA, TED talk (February 2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HgL5OFip-0

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American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. 1928

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