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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.

James Watson

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
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
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
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
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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Believe Big God Myself Understand
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Employment Important Necessary Yourself
I have been much blessed.
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Blessing Myself
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
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Believe Discover Fast Speed
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
Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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Direction Discrimination Help Leadership People Sympathy Try Understand
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Brain Discover Universe
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
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
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
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
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 I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See 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
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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God One Liner Play Science
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Love Patience Yourself
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
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
No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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Better Creation Human Improvement Technology

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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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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