If scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSONDo things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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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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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 pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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