We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
JAMES WATSONThe 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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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