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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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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I have been much blessed.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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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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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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