The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSONEvery time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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 brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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