A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.
JAMES WATSONThe brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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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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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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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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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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The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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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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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
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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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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.
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