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.
JAMES WATSONBiology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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 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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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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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