People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSONNever be the brightest person in the room.
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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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