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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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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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