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.
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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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