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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.

James Watson

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.
JAMES WATSON

Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Believe Discover Fast Speed
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Good Price Production Public Sick
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Employment Important Necessary Yourself
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON

Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
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
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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God One Liner Play Science
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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Courage Evolution Failure Heart Human Job Move Science Time
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Physics Science Social Work
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 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
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
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time

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