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.
JAMES WATSONWhenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
More James Watson Quotes
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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 clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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 have been much blessed.
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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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[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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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