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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.

James Watson

You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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Love Patience Yourself
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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Competition Research Togetherness Virtual Young
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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Complication Deal Reason Science Thinking
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
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Greatness Population Science Subject Way
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
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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Goodness Model Responsibility Wrong
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
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Religion Time Understand
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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Culture Human Imagination Logic Personality Role Science Tradition
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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Mindset Oneself Popular Science Stupidity Success Support
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
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Appearance Myself People Terrible Woman
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
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Dreams Life Myself Time
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
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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Adventure Beautiful Character Science Simplicity Spirit Truth
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
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Age Fundamental Stop Talk Time Value
Never be the brightest person in the room.
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Bright One Liner Person Room
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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Believe Father God Himself Lucky Myself Soul

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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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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