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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

James Watson

Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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Ideas Important Knowledge Learning
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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Damage Justice Movie Race Replacement Science
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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Adventure Beautiful Character Science Simplicity Spirit Truth
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Break Excitement Occupation Science Terrible Thinking
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Age Biology Interest Time
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room
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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Enough Evolution Humanity Identity Intellectual Reason Reservation Separation
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Employment Important Necessary Yourself
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Goodness Mindset Stupidity
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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Care Children Early Hands Life Lonely Marriage See Time
A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
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Genius Necessary Stupidity
[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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Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

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