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.
JAMES WATSONYou’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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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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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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