As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
JAMES WATSONPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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