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.
JAMES WATSONNothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
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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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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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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