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.
JAMES WATSONIf scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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I have been much blessed.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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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