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.
JAMES WATSONA clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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