If scientists don’t play God, who will?
JAMES WATSONThere is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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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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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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I have been much blessed.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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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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