I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSONScience 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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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 American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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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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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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