The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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 is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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