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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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Greatness Population Science Subject Way
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Improvement People Thinking Wrong
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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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Believe Discover Fast Speed
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
[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
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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Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
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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Better Change Life Opportunity Place Reality World
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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Acceptance Evolution Principle Reason Religious Theory
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Goodness Mindset Stupidity

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