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.
JAMES WATSONTake 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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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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