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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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