One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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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 have been much blessed.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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