Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONSome think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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 you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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