One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
JAMES WATSONAlready for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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 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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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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