The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSON
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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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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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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Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
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