I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
JAMES WATSONOne of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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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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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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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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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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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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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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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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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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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
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