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.
JAMES WATSONOur goal should be to understand our differences.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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[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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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