The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
JAMES WATSONNo 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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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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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