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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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 don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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