People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
JAMES WATSONScience has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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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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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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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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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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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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