If scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSON
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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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