The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONThe 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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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