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.
JAMES WATSON
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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