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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

James Watson

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Goodness Mindset Stupidity
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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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.
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