The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSONThe pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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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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