The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
JAMES WATSONNo good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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