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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?

James Watson

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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Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
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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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
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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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
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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Achievement Break Destroy Scream
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Greatness Population Science Subject Way
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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Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Employment Important Necessary Yourself
Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Eliminate Gift Greatness Natural Science World
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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Better Creation Human Improvement Technology
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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God One Liner Play Science
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology Gold Myself Rush Science

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