It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSONScience has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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[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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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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 American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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