The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONEvery time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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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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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 never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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I have been much blessed.
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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 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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