Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONThe pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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 pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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 is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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