The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
JAMES WATSONSome think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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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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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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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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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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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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