I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSONIf 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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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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 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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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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