DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
JAMES WATSONThere is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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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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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 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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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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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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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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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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