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.
JAMES WATSONMoving 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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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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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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