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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.

James Watson

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
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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Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Religion Time Understand
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Eliminate Gift Greatness Natural Science World
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Brain Discover Universe
The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
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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Complication Deal Reason Science Thinking
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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Feeling Interview People Yourself
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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Adventure Beautiful Character Science Simplicity Spirit Truth
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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Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
[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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Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
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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Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Goodness Mindset Stupidity
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Good Price Production Public Sick
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
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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Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
I have been much blessed.
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Blessing Myself
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Physics Science Social Work
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Employment Important Necessary Yourself
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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Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Genius Necessary Stupidity
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong

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