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

—  James D. Watson

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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