I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSONThe biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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