[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.
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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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