I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
JAMES WATSONSome think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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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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