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.
JAMES WATSONNever be the brightest person in the room.
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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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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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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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