If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
JAMES WATSONWhenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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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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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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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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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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