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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More James Watson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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 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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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