The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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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.
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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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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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