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.
JAMES WATSONBiology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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