If scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSONNever be the brightest person in the room.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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I have been much blessed.
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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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