I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
JAMES WATSONYou’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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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 way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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