Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
JAMES WATSONAlready for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
More James Watson Quotes
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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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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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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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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