The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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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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[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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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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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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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