No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
JAMES WATSONYou’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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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.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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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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