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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

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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Eliminate Gift Greatness Natural Science World
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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Difference Goal Ourselves Understand
[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.
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Bird Father Man Myself Stop Support Young
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
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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Good Price Production Public Sick
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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Believe Big God Myself Understand
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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Biology Brain Connection Discover Mindset Science Universe
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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Biology Gold Myself Rush Science
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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Courage Evolution Failure Heart Human Job Move Science Time
There are many people of color who are very talented.
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Color Different People Talent
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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Evolution Goodness Myself Production Purpose Thinking
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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Best Mindset Natural Question Science Time
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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Dreams Help People Play Success Trust
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
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Collaboration Team Work
I turned against the left wing because they don’t like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
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Biology Evil Failure Life Myself Science System Wings
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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