Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSONDNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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