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James Watson

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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Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Eliminate Gift Greatness Natural Science World
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Love Patience Yourself
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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Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
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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Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Employment Important Necessary Yourself
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking
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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Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong

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