The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
JAMES WATSON
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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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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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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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 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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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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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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Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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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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