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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

James Watson

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
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking
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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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
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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Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
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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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Love Patience Yourself
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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Change Decision Mindset Need Time
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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God One Liner Play Science
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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Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value
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
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Good Price Production Public Sick

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

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