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.
JAMES WATSONThere are many people of color who are very talented.
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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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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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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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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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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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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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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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