As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
JAMES WATSONI 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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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