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.
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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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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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 seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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