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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.

James Watson

Never be the brightest person in the room.
JAMES WATSON

Bright One Liner Person Room
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
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 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
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
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
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
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Good Price Production Public Sick
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
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Damage Justice Movie Race Replacement Science
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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Brain Discover Universe
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
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent

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