The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSONKnowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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