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.
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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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 brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
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