The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSONThe 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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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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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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I have been much blessed.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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