It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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 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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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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