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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

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
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong
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 are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
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
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
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
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
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
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Goodness Mindset Stupidity
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
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
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
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
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room
[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young

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