Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
JAMES WATSONSome think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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