Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.
JAMES WATSONScience 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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I have been much blessed.
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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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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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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.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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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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[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 has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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