A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
JAMES WATSONThere are many people of color who are very talented.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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 are many people of color who are very talented.
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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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