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.
JAMES WATSONRacists 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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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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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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