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.
JAMES WATSONThere is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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