One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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.
More James Watson Quotes
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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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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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