A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
JAMES WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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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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