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?
JAMES WATSONScience has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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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 American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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