The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSONIf 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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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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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[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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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