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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.

James Watson

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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Dreams Help People Play Success Trust
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Religion Time Understand
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 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
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
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
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
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
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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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
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
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
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 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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Believe Big God Myself Understand
We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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Equality Science Simplicity True
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
I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking

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