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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

James Watson

Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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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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