I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSONDo things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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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 brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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