Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
JAMES WATSONOur goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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[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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