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.
JAMES WATSONEvery time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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I have been much blessed.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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