The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSONWhenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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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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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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