Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.
JAMES WATSONOne of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
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A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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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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Never be the brightest person in the room.
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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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You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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If scientists don’t play God, who will?
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Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
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We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.
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For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
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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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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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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
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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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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
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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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