Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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 has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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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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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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