{"id":72,"date":"2004-04-28T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T13:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=72"},"modified":"2004-04-28T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T13:28:46","slug":"something-to-be-clever-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/04\/28\/something-to-be-clever-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Something to be clever about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/dawkins04\/dawkins04_index.html\">Richard Dawkins<\/a>, writing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\">The Edge<\/a>, says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In a 1968 book review of THE DOUBLE HELIX, anthologised in PLUTO&#8217;S REPUBLIC, the distinguished biologist Sir Peter Medawar wrote that if a<br \/>\nyoung man as talented as Jim Watson had been born British, especially in<br \/>\nthe Cambridge of his and Crick&#8217;s time, he would have been steered towards<br \/>\nliterary studies:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just so happens that during the 1950s, the first great age of molecular biology, the English Schools of Oxford and particularly of Cambridge produced more than a score of graduates of quite outstanding ability ?much more brilliant, inventive, articulate and dialectically skilful than most young scientists; right up in the Watson class. But Watson had one towering advantage over all of them: in addition to being extremely clever he had something important to be clever ABOUT.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Dawkins, writing for The Edge, says In a 1968 book review of THE DOUBLE HELIX, anthologised in PLUTO&#8217;S REPUBLIC, the distinguished biologist Sir Peter Medawar wrote that if a young man as talented as Jim Watson had been born British, especially in the Cambridge of his and Crick&#8217;s time, he would have been steered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-1a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}