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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

James Watson

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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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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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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