Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONThere 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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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
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I have been much blessed.
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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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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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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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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?
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I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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