Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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