Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
JAMES WATSONSome think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
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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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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