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.
JAMES WATSONI 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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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I have been much blessed.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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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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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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