There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
JAMES WATSONNothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
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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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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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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
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