The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
JAMES WATSON
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 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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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 American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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I have been much blessed.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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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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