No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSON
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.
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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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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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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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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Some 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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